Google has introduced Tabletop, a new Google Labs experiment designed to help groups create customized interactive planning tools and collaborate in real time. The platform allows users to combine links, files, and ideas with AI-powered prompts to generate shared experiences, including travel itineraries, dinner polls, expense splitters, and tournament brackets.
Announced on November 11, 2026, Tabletop is designed to simplify activities that require coordination among multiple participants.
The experiment brings group planning and interactive tool creation into a shared digital workspace, allowing participants to organize information, make decisions, and collaborate without relying on multiple separate applications.
Tabletop is initially rolling out in the United States through a waitlist for users aged 18 and older.
The announcement was made by Roman Nurik, Design and Engineering Lead at Google Labs.
AI-Powered Tools For Group Planning
Tabletop allows users to create customized collaborative spaces based on their specific activities and requirements.
Rather than requiring participants to use predetermined planning formats, the platform can generate interactive tools from information provided by users.
To begin, users add relevant links, upload files, or describe their ideas within a Tabletop workspace.
They can then enter instructions using the @tabletop prompt interface to generate an interactive planning experience.
Alternatively, users can select a starter template designed around a common group activity.
For example, a group organizing a vacation can create an interactive travel itinerary that brings together planning information in one location.
Participants coordinating a dinner can generate a poll to collect preferences and make decisions collaboratively.
Groups managing shared expenses can create tools to divide costs among participants.
Tabletop can also generate tournament brackets for recreational leagues, competitions, and other organized activities.
These examples illustrate how the platform is intended to support different types of collaborative planning without requiring users to develop software themselves.
Real-Time Collaboration Through Shared Workspaces
A central feature of Tabletop is its support for simultaneous participation.
Once a workspace has been created, users can share an invitation link through an existing group chat.
Other participants can then enter the workspace and interact with its tools at the same time.
Google compares this collaborative experience to Google Docs, where multiple people can contribute to a shared document simultaneously.
Tabletop extends the concept beyond text editing by allowing groups to interact with customized planning tools.
This approach is designed to reduce the coordination challenges associated with organizing group activities across separate messages, spreadsheets, documents, and websites.
For instance, organizing a family vacation can require collecting destination information, coordinating schedules, discussing activities, and making group decisions.
Tabletop is intended to bring these activities into a common environment where participants can contribute directly.
The same model can support recreational sports leagues, social gatherings, and other activities involving shared decisions.
Google Labs Expands AI Experimentation
Tabletop is being introduced through Google Labs, the company’s platform for testing experimental technologies and product concepts.
The project reflects Google’s exploration of AI-powered interfaces that allow users to create customized digital experiences through natural-language instructions.
Rather than offering only a conventional chatbot interaction, Tabletop uses AI to help generate interactive tools that groups can use collaboratively.
Its focus is on transforming user-provided information into practical planning experiences.
The ability to incorporate links, files, and ideas allows the platform to adapt to different activities and group requirements.
Google has not announced a general availability date beyond the initial U.S. waitlist rollout.
The company has also not provided detailed information about future pricing, supported integrations, or international availability.
For now, the experiment is available to eligible U.S. adults through a waitlist.
Tabletop represents Google’s effort to make AI-generated interactive experiences useful for everyday group coordination, combining natural-language customization with the real-time collaboration familiar from existing productivity applications.
By allowing users to create shared planning tools without building them manually, Google is exploring a new approach to organizing activities, coordinating decisions, and helping groups work together.
