Google Portraits Now Available in Google Labs - What is it and How Does it Work?

Google Labs rolled out “Portraits,” a chat tool that lets you pick the brain of real experts without booking a single meeting.
The debut Portrait features leadership author Kim Scott. Open the Labs page, type a thorny workplace question, and an illustrated Scott avatar answers in her own style, quoting passages from Radical Candor and related talks. Google wires Gemini under the hood, so every reply draws from Scott’s vetted material rather than random web text.

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Google says Scott provided manuscripts, recordings, and fact-checks during development. The team fed that source library into Gemini, giving the model a tight knowledge fence that helps cut hallucinations. Gemini parses each prompt, pulls the most relevant excerpts, and returns a short, plain-language response that feels like a speed-run coaching session.

Portraits can be tried out here at Labs. Anyone in the U.S. who is 18 or older can sign in today and start chatting. A feedback button follows every message, a reminder that Google still treats the project as an experiment. The company says it ran “extensive testing and user feedback mechanisms” before opening the doors.

Google wants more voices. A form on the site invites creators to pitch future Portraits with sample content and voice clips. Executives hint that upcoming mentors could cover therapy, fitness, and beyond; each partnership would mirror the Scott playbook: sign a deal, feed authentic work into Gemini, then ship an animated advisor.

The launch lands three weeks after I/O, where Google promised tighter, topic-specific AI experiments instead of catch-all chatbots. Portraits fits that pledge, giving users a narrow, accountable source while pushing the idea that AI chats can stay grounded when they stick to an author’s own words. Time will tell if people embrace this new breed of expert bot or swipe past it like any other demo.

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