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Personal email API for AI agents & developer tools

Reach people off the work inbox.

What AI agents & developer tools teams need from personal emails, what Forager returns, and how teams like yours test it.

2 recipes use personal emails for AI agents & developer tools teams.

  • $5 free credits
  • 800M+ people
  • 65M+ companies

A selection of teams in AI agents & developer tools using Forager for personal emails · plus other teams in AI agents & developer tools

  • Clay
  • Juicebox
  • HubSpot
  • Deepline
  • Cargo
  • BetterContact
  • Airscale
  • Freckle
For AI agents & developer tools teams
The job
Let GTM engineers and developers build production enrichment workflows by prompting a coding agent against typed endpoints, or add a people endpoint to their own web-data API.
When
A developer asks a coding agent to 'enrich new sign-ups with role and company and route them'.
Outcome
GTM engineers ship production workflows in minutes and developers enrich sign-ups and leads with one API key.
Lead recipe 1

Give coding agents typed people and company data tools

When to use it: A developer asks a coding agent to 'enrich new sign-ups with role and company and route them'.

  1. Publish typed schemas for person_role_search, person_detail_lookup, reverse lookup, organization_search and job_search
  2. Coding agent generates the workflow code and calls endpoints with one API key
  3. Use _totals endpoints to estimate cost before paginating
  4. Deploy as a scheduled job or webhook handler
InputsOutputs
developer promptgenerated workflow
API keyenriched records
typed endpoint schemas
Lead recipe 2

Add Forager as a waterfall step in an agent's contact tool

When to use it: An agent's find-contact tool returns nothing for a third of prospects because its single source has no mobiles.

Show the steps
  1. Define one find_contact tool in your framework that takes a LinkedIn URL or name and company
  2. Inside it, call POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ then POST /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ when the earlier source returns nothing
  3. Return a typed result with the field names, the source that found it and the person_id
  4. Count credits per found result only, so a miss in the Forager step adds 0 to the run's cost
InputsOutputs
LinkedIn URL or public identifierphone_number
full name + company domainwork_email
personal_email
source
person_id
Open the recipe: Add Forager as a waterfall step in an agent's contact tool
Fields

Fields you get back

  • generated workflow
  • enriched records
  • phone_number
  • work_email
  • personal_email
  • source
  • person_id

From the workflows above. Full field reference: Personal emails and the Personal emails API reference.

Who owns this

Who evaluates personal emails at AI agents & developer tools teams, and what they are judged on

  • Product manager who owns the enrichment feature: judged on what users see when they open a record
  • Engineering lead integrating the API: judged on response time and errors they can route on
  • Partnerships or data lead managing vendors: judged on cost per valid result

A selection of teams in AI agents & developer tools using Forager for personal emails · plus other teams in AI agents & developer tools

  • Clay
    • GTM workflow builders

    Selected use case: Forager mobile numbers, emails and people data inside Clay tables.

  • Juicebox
    • AI candidate sourcing

    Selected use case: Forager data behind its PeopleGPT search and sourcing agents.

  • HubSpot
    • CRM add-ons

    Selected use case: enriching contact and company records with people, company and job-posting data.

  • Deepline
    • Waterfall enrichment

    Selected use case: Forager lookups as typed tools inside enrichment waterfalls.

    19 typed Forager tools available inside Deepline1

  • Cargo
    • GTM workflow builders

    Selected use case: enrichment plays that use Forager from its integrations catalog.

  • BetterContact
    • Waterfall enrichment

    Selected use case: a Forager step in its waterfall for mobile numbers.

  • Airscale
    • Waterfall enrichment

    Selected use case: a Forager step in its mobile number waterfall.

  • Freckle
    • GTM workflow builders

    Selected use case: Forager as a selectable mobile number provider in its waterfalls.

Sources

1 Deepline: deepline.com/integrations/forager (public page, read 2026-10-21).

“We use Forager to enrich our contact data with email addresses and mobile phone numbers. After analyzing all the data providers we use, we found Forager to deliver the best overall data quality.”
AndelaRyley L.Growth Marketing Associate
800M+people
65M+companies
How to test it

Test personal emails on your own sample

  1. Pull a sample. Take profiles your users looked up last week.
  2. Run it. Use a self-serve key, or book a demo and send us the list.
  3. Measure what your users feel. Connect rate for mobiles, bounces for emails, and whether the right person answers.
  • $5 free credits
  • No credit card
  • Pay per result
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do AI agent and developer-tool companies use Forager personal emails?

Let GTM engineers and developers build production enrichment workflows by prompting a coding agent against typed endpoints, or add a people endpoint to their own web-data API. Personal email addresses for reaching people outside their work inbox, such as passive candidates and founders. This page walks through 2 workflows with the exact steps.

What do personal emails cost for AI agent and developer-tool companies?

Personal emails: 5 credits per personal email found, and a personal email lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits. That is $0.07 per personal email on Starter month to month and $0.05 on Pro with yearly billing. Self-serve plans are Starter, Growth, Pro and Scale. See plans and prices

Which AI agent and developer-tool workflows use personal emails?

Give coding agents typed people and company data tools and add Forager as a waterfall step in an agent's contact tool. Each is on this page with its trigger, steps and outcome.

Which people and company data APIs work well with coding agents?

The workflow uses Forager People search, Person enrichment, Company enrichment, Job postings API, Work emails, Personal emails and Reverse email lookup. People search: Find the people who hold a role at target companies, filtered by title, seniority, department and location. Let GTM engineers and developers build production enrichment workflows by prompting a coding agent against typed endpoints, or add a people endpoint to their own web-data API.

What do I send, and what comes back?

You send API key, developer prompt and full name + company domain. You get back enriched records, generated workflow, person_id and personal_email, as JSON.

Am I charged when no personal email is found?

No. A personal email lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits, so you pay for personal emails we find. Search, enrichment and reverse lookups are the exception: they are charged per request.

Is there a free way to try Forager?

Yes. Create a free account at app.forager.ai: it comes with $5 in free credits and an API key, and there is no credit card to sign up. Run it on records you already know, or book a demo and send us a list: we run it and show you what we find.

How do I add a contact waterfall to my agent's tools?

Define one find_contact tool in your framework that takes a LinkedIn URL or name and company. Inside it, call POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ then POST /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ when the earlier source returns nothing.

How accurate is Forager data?

The test that counts is your own: send a list of profiles you care about. We run it and show you what we find, number by number, so you can measure hit rate and connect rate yourself.

When should I use a personal email instead of a work email?

Use a personal email when the person may not read, or may not stay at, their work inbox: passive candidates, founders, alumni and people between jobs. Use a work email for business outreach to someone at their current employer. Forager prices both the same: email lookups are charged only when an address is found.

Does Forager integrate with the tools we already use?

Native in Clay and Zapier, partner-built in Deepline and called through the API from Make, n8n and your own code. Everything else connects through the REST API with one API key.

Is there a contract or minimum commitment?

No contract to start: a free account comes with $5 in credits. To keep using personal emails, choose a monthly or yearly plan. Monthly plans cancel anytime and unused credits roll over; yearly plans grant all credits upfront and cost 10% less. Larger volumes are agreed with our team.

Start building

Put people, company and job data your users can act on inside your product

Send us a list. We run it, show you what we find, then talk volume and terms.

  • $5 free credits
  • No credit card
  • Run your sample
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