Specialists

Last updated 6 June 2026

The main Flexie assistant handing a job to a Reports specialist and bringing the finished report back into the conversation, while you keep talking to one assistant

Some jobs are bigger than others. When a request needs deep, focused work, the assistant quietly hands it to a specialist built for exactly that task, lets it do the focused work, and brings the result back into your conversation. From where you sit it is seamless: you asked one assistant, and you got an answer.

What a specialist is

Think of the main assistant as a capable generalist and a specialist as an expert it can call on. A specialist is set up for a single kind of work, for example building complex automations or designing detailed reports, and it is given its own focus, its own abilities, and its own knowledge.

Why it works better

A specialist helps in two ways:

Focus. A helper set up for one kind of job, with instructions and knowledge tuned to it, does that job better than a generalist juggling everything.
Clarity. The heavy back-and-forth of a big task happens inside the specialist, so your main conversation stays clean and easy to follow. You see the outcome, not the scaffolding.

What you can configure

Each specialist has its own settings, so you can shape it for its job:

Model. Which AI model powers it. You might use a faster model for simple specialists and a stronger one for demanding work.
Abilities. Which abilities it is allowed to use, chosen independently from the main assistant. See What the assistant can do.
Instructions. A short brief describing the specialist's role and how it should work.
Knowledge bases. Which of your knowledge bases it can draw on. See Knowledge bases.

You can have several specialists, each for a different kind of work.

When it happens

You do not trigger a specialist yourself, and you do not need to know they exist to use the assistant. The main assistant decides when a request is worth handing off, based on the kind of work involved. For everyday questions it just answers; for the demanding, focused jobs it brings in the right helper.

Closely related

Settings & models: add specialists and set their model, abilities, instructions, and knowledge.
Knowledge bases: give a specialist its own library of facts.
The chat assistant: where it all comes together as one conversation.