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title: "Specialists"
url: https://flexie.io/resources/ai/specialists
description: "When a request needs deep, focused work, the assistant hands it to a specialist built for that task and brings the result back. You only ever talk to one assistant. How specialists work and what you configure."
---

# 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](https://flexie.io/image/resources/ai-specialists.png)

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](https://flexie.io/resources/ai/what-it-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](https://flexie.io/resources/ai/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](https://flexie.io/resources/ai/settings-and-models): add specialists and set their model, abilities, instructions, and knowledge.
* [Knowledge bases](https://flexie.io/resources/ai/knowledge-bases): give a specialist its own library of facts.
* [The chat assistant](https://flexie.io/resources/ai/chat-assistant): where it all comes together as one conversation.