Abstract: A chat collaboration tool is disclosed. In particular, a network enabled chat session is established between a customer and an agent of an entity. The customer has a customer issue that is to be resolved by a specialist of the entity and not the agent via the chat session. A specialist query is generated based at least on information of the customer issue, wherein the specialist query includes one or more parameters specific at least to the customer issue. At least one available specialist capable of handling the customer issue is identified based on satisfied matches between attributes available specialists and corresponding parameters of the specialist query. The available specialist(s) are displayed on the agent's user interface wherein the agent is able to select an available specialist. A chat session is then established between the customer and the available specialist upon receiving the agent selection.