Google is testing a new product aimed at helping families stay organized with the assistance of an AI agent. This week, the search giant rolled out an updated version of CC, an AI agent built to operate across email, calendar, chats, and tasks. With this update, CC now centers on keeping families coordinated, planning out the day ahead, and even taking on family-specific chores—such as signing permission slips, putting together shopping lists, or drafting weekly meal plans. The shift toward a family-oriented CC arrives as numerous AI startups explore how best to integrate agentic AI into consumers' daily lives. Some AI tools, like Ollie and Fambot, have directed their offerings squarely at assisting parents and families. Google's CC, by contrast, started out as a productivity agent that linked to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and the broader web to make sense of your day, then sent a "Your Day Ahead" briefing to your inbox. In May, the tool arrived in the Gemini app under the name "Daily Brief."

Google said user requests revealed that people wanted to use the feature more for household management tasks. They wanted AI to help them stay on top of kids' school schedules, sports practices, bills, meal plans, and more. As a result, Google pivoted CC into an agent for families that helps run their households.

Now, CC is getting its own Google account, allowing it to collaborate with family members on tasks while also keeping its own specific set of permissions for accessing data. Google explains that each family member decides what they want to share—like emails about school events, sports, clubs, birthday party invites, doctor appointments, or anything else. These can be forwarded to CC through its email address, or shared automatically. To automate sharing, users can select the email senders whose messages they always want to share with CC going forward, such as schools, travel companies, clubs, or sports teams. (CC will also suggest email senders to add on a weekly basis.)

The company says CC currently supports up to six family members who can share information and collaborate with the agent. Beyond email, CC can also coordinate household activities by tracking important dates and to-dos, then automatically adding them to the calendar or a shared task list. That means, for instance, every time the orthodontist sends an email confirmation of your next appointment or the school announces a teacher workday, CC can put it on the shared calendar.

What's more, the agent can handle select tasks on a family's behalf, like filling out permission slips or activity registration PDFs, making school supply shopping lists, planning weekly meals, figuring out drive times between activities, creating shared Docs or Sheets, and more. It will even ask for missing details, as needed, and update its group memory so it can be more helpful going forward. Google notes that CC runs on its own isolated cloud computer, powered by Gemini and Google's agentic harness, Antigravity. The experiment is only available for U.S. users with a personal Gmail account, who are ages 18 and up. That's a big drawback for the time being because it means older kids, like tweens and teens, can't use the service unless they lie about their age on their Google accounts. It also means they can't use it with their school-provided emails, despite the fact that many attend schools that run everything on Chromebooks and Google apps and have inboxes filled with school-related updates. CC could help larger households, where parents have to coordinate with each other and with other adults, like grandparents, caregivers, nannies, or adult children still living at home, which tends to be more common these days. Existing CC users will be invited via email in the coming days to upgrade their accounts, Google says, while new users can join a waitlist to access the AI agent.