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# What are expert groups

AIsuru's Expert Groups transform your Agent from a simple chatbot into a powerful virtual team of specialists. This feature lets you create and manage a collection of Agents, each with specific expertise, working together to provide complete and accurate answers to users' questions.

#### How an Expert Group works

The Expert Group works like a **natural conversation** with a team of specialists. With every message you send, the system automatically identifies the most suitable expert and **that specific agent responds**.

You can keep the conversation going naturally: if your next question is about a different area, the appropriate expert for that request will step in, always keeping the **full context of the previous conversation**.

Think of having a squad of virtual experts at your disposal, each specializing in a different area. When a user asks a question, the Expert Group:

1. Analyzes the request to understand its context and topic;
2. Selects the Agent best suited to respond based on its specific expertise;
3. The chosen agent replies coherently to the user.

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**The Agent responds based on the entire conversation the user is having with the group, including messages with other Agents.**

For example, you can have one Agent retrieve data and then pass it to a second Agent to create a chart.
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The key idea is that each Agent in the Expert Group should have its own specific domain — so the best Agent for the job gets picked based on the user's request.\
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**Example of a collaborative conversation:**

* **User**: 'What was the Q3 revenue?'
* **Accounting Agent**: 'Q3 revenue was €150,000'
* **User**: 'How can we improve those numbers?'
* **Marketing Agent**: 'Based on the €150,000 figure my colleague mentioned, I'd suggest...'

-> Each agent can **reference** information shared by the other experts in the same conversation.

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**Expert Group = Agent**

An Expert Group is essentially an Agent with advanced coordination capabilities. It takes up one Agent slot in your plan and is accessible through Agent management.
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#### What Expert Groups can do

Expert Groups open up new possibilities for conversational AI:

* **Advanced customer support**: build a virtual team of assistants specialized in different areas of your business;
* **Virtual consulting**: offer consulting on complex topics by combining the expertise of multiple specialists;
* **Interactive training**: develop learning paths guided by a team of virtual tutors specializing in different subjects;
* **Research and analysis**: use multiple Agents to analyze problems from different perspectives and domains;
* **Project management**: assign specialized Agents to different phases or aspects of a project.

In the upcoming sections, we'll explore in detail how to create, configure, and optimize your Expert Groups to get the most out of this powerful AIsuru feature.