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Expert Voices shape how Chief talks to you

An Expert Voice defines how Chief communicates — its perspective, tone, and level of detail. While a Skill teaches Chief to do a specific task, an Expert Voice changes the style and point of view of the answer. Pick a voice, and Chief responds as that kind of expert until you switch it.
Chief: What are Expert Voices?
Here is a concrete example. You’re drafting a board update and want it crisp and strategic, not chatty. Set your voice to Business Executive. Ask your question, and Chief answers the way a seasoned executive would — direct, decision-oriented, no filler. Later you switch to Teacher: ELI5 to get a plain-language version for a wider audience. Same question, two very different deliveries.

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How Expert Voices work

Chief: What are Expert Voices? — How Expert Voices work
Chief comes with built-in Expert Voices such as Business Executive, C-Level Executive, Coach, Brevity-Focused Communicator, and Teacher: ELI5. New users start with the Chief voice pre-selected — Chief’s own product-expert persona, which answers questions about how Chief works. To fall back to the neutral Default Expert Voice — a versatile expert that adapts to whatever you’re working on — click Reset to default in the voice picker, or pick any other voice. Until you save a default of your own, every new task starts on Chief. There are two kinds of voices:
  • Built-in Expert Voices — ready-made voices provided by Chief (badged Chief).
  • Custom Expert Voices — voices you create to capture your own style, a colleague’s, your brand, or your company. Scope them to Anyone in the Project or keep them Private.
You apply a voice from the Voice chip in the prompt bar, and it stays active for that task until you change it. To start new tasks on a voice, choose Use these settings for new tasks in the voice picker. Manage all of your voices on the Expert Voices page in the left navigation.

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Expert Voices vs. Skills

They’re managed together but solve different problems. A Skill provides task instructions (“turn these notes into action items”). An Expert Voice sets the voice and viewpoint of the response. You can combine them — for example, run a summary Skill while responding as a Business Executive.
💡 Good to Know: An Expert Voice changes how Chief responds, not what it knows. It doesn’t add or remove access to your files, Projects, or Concepts.

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FAQ

Open the Expert Voices page from the left navigation. It lists built-in voices (badged Chief) alongside any custom voices shared with your Project or kept Private.
No. A fresh account starts with the Chief voice pre-selected. Click Reset to default in the voice picker to fall back to the neutral Default Expert Voice, which adapts to your task, or choose a specific voice when you want a particular tone or perspective.
Confirm the voice is actually applied: expand the prompt bar’s Using: row. When a voice is set, the Voice chip shows its name. If the chip only reads Voice, open the voice picker; its Selected tile names the neutral Default Expert Voice. If the chip or Selected tile names a different voice, select yours again. A voice applies to one task at a time, so a new task starts on your saved default unless you saved this voice with Use these settings for new tasks.