A smarter way to navigate Google’s global footprint

Google map and workplace data dashboard on a monitor in an office

Google manages thousands of buildings worldwide. We built a next-generation mapping product to bring that footprint into one view, helping teams search, explore, and answer questions in seconds.

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Unified building data from 10+ systems into one interactive map experience.

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Made complex real estate data accessible through natural-language AI and map-based insights.

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Scaled from initial idea to an operating platform used by thousands of enterprise stakeholders worldwide.

Google’s workplace spans thousands of buildings across 60+ countries. Each site has constantly changing details, from meeting room availability to parking closures, elevator outages and construction detours. With that information spread across dozens of systems, even simple questions meant piecing together answers from fragmented sources.

One place to understand any building in context

We built an interactive mapping product that brings portfolio, location, and operations data together. Teams can scan the full footprint, open any building, ask questions in plain language, and jump to the source when they need more detail.

Google gNav — one place to understand any building in context

Complex questions, without complex queries

Start with a place, like San Francisco’s Financial District. See how seats are distributed across teams, ask a question, add constraints, and view the result as a chart or map overlay. Need more detail? Open the source system directly.

Google gNav — complex questions without complex queries
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Plan better spaces, make faster decisions

Drill into any building in one view. Floor plans showing space type and capacity. Headcount and utilization metrics. Capital costs and budgets. Renovation timelines. Teams get the context they need to make fast decisions about space allocation, staffing, and investment, without switching between systems.

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Every answer shows the data behind it

For AI to be useful here, people need to know where an answer came from. Every result can be traced to the data behind it and the calculation used to get there.

That idea carries through the product. Cards give quick context, pins show building locations, and deep links take teams straight to the source when they need more detail.

Google gNav transparent AI worklog and query results
Haiku Chandna, Lead Product Manager at Fluxon.

“Any AI assistant only earns its keep if people trust its answers. So we built query transparency into the product from the start.”

Haiku Chandna
Lead Product Manager, Fluxon

From an initial idea to an operating platform that serves thousands

What started as a new way to visualize Google’s real estate portfolio became a shared platform for understanding it. As adoption grew, we expanded the product with new data, custom modules, AI capabilities, and integrations, opening the platform to new use cases and users beyond its original scope.

Today, the experience powers workplace operations globally, helping thousands of teams across Google answer building questions faster, identify risks and issues early, and keep millions of square feet of workplace running smoothly.

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Thousands

of users across Google

Millions of square feet

of space analyzed

10+ systems → 1 view

to answer questions about any building

Google gNav dataset navigation with Room Booking Health selected
Slice and dice your real estate portfolio with tens of datasets
Google gNav building map displayed on a tablet
See buildings, teams, and space data together on a map.
Google gNav live space composition charts
Bring the same map and data into other internal tools with an embeddable SDK.
Google gNav building search and results
Quickly find the right building, whatever details you search with.
Google gNav live seat and amenities comparison
Use live charts to compare space by floor, seat count, or nearby amenities.

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