Custom Specialist

Custom Specialist is a blank-slate CloudAxis hire you configure entirely yourself — you write the instructions, choose the skills, and give it whatever persona your workflow needs.

What it does

Custom Specialist starts with no skills enabled and no instructions written. You add the capabilities it needs, paste in your own operating instructions — its job description — and attach whatever duties you want on whatever schedule fits. It's the specialist you shape from nothing rather than one with a preset role.

Because you write its instructions directly, Custom Specialist can also stand in for a preset that doesn't quite fit — for example, a research-and-post combination that borrows a bit of Scout's job and a bit of Slack Poster's, run as a single specialist instead of two.

Good for

A workflow that doesn't match any preset specialist — for example, a CRM hygiene pass that dedupes leads every Friday.
A specialist with a specific voice or persona for a niche task, like a daily brief written the way you'd want a particular teammate to write it.
Combining a few small jobs into one specialist rather than hiring several presets for light work.

What it needs connected

Whatever you enable. Custom Specialist has no fixed Launchpad requirement — connect Email, Notion, Slack, Sheets, or any other app in Launchpad only if the instructions you give it need that access.

Typical duties

Custom Specialist ships with a starter daily check-in duty you're free to edit or delete immediately. Since you're writing the instructions, the schedule is entirely up to you — daily, weekly, or manual-only.

What you can ask in chat

"Become my CRM hygiene specialist — dedupe leads every Friday morning."
"Send me a weather and traffic brief every weekday at 7am."
"Summarize my metrics file every Friday and flag anything off-trend."

Plan

Custom Specialist is available on the Free plan — it's the one extra hire every account gets alongside Cloudia before you need to upgrade.

Limits

Custom Specialist takes more setup than a preset — if you want something working with zero configuration, start with a preset specialist or ask Cloudia to design one for you instead.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to write instructions before I can hire Custom Specialist?

No — you can hire it first and add instructions afterward. It simply won't do anything useful until you've told it what its job is.

Can Cloudia help me write a Custom Specialist's instructions?

Yes. Describe the workflow you want in chat with Cloudia, and it can draft the instructions and starter duty for a Custom Specialist for you to review.