Industry · B2B data providers

Personal email API for B2B data providers

Reach people off the work inbox.

What B2B data providers teams need from personal emails, what Forager returns, and how teams like yours test it.

6 recipes use personal emails for B2B data providers teams.

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65M+ companies

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Records to fill

Jordan ExampleHead of Data

Priya ExampleOps Manager

Sam ExampleCFO

Alex ExampleIT Director

Forager

Find a personal emailMatch the right personPay for found emails

Filled recordExample

Jordan ExampleHead of Data · Example Co

jordan.e@example.net Personal

Email JordanRight person

Built for the top slot on quality

No email found? 0 credits

A selection of teams in B2B data providers using Forager for personal emails · plus other teams using personal emails

For B2B data providers teams

The job: Run a self-serve prospect database where SMB sellers search for free and pay only for found contacts.
When: A self-serve data vendor wants broader search coverage without building its own crawl.
Outcome: SMB sellers build targeted lists and pay only for found contacts.

Lead recipe 1

Power a self-serve, pay-per-found contact database with a licensed people feed

When to use it: A self-serve data vendor wants broader search coverage without building its own crawl.

Load people_feed and company_feed into the search index
Expose filters for industry, size, title and location
On reveal, call /personal_emails/ and /phone_numbers/ and charge credits only when found
Refresh the index on each feed delivery

Inputs	Outputs
people + company feed	`prospect list`
user search filters	`revealed personal_email`
	`phone_number`

Lead recipe 2

Fill missing emails and mobiles in user-uploaded CSVs

When to use it: A user uploads a CSV of names, companies or LinkedIn URLs with gaps.

Show the steps

Normalise columns and resolve each row with POST /person_detail_lookup/ or /person_role_search/ (person_name + organization_domains)
Fill work_email, personal_email and mobile via person_contacts_lookup endpoints
Return the CSV with fill status per field and credits used
Bill only filled fields

Inputs	Outputs
CSV (name, company, LinkedIn URL, email)	`work_email`
	`personal_email`
	`phone_number`
	`fill status`

Open the recipe: Fill missing emails and mobiles in user-uploaded CSVs

Lead recipe 3

Reach SMB owners who have no professional profile

When to use it: A local-business dataset has the business but not a reachable owner.

Show the steps

Start from known owner identifiers (business email, phone or name) on the local-business record
Resolve with POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/ or /by_phone_number/ to the owner profile
Retrieve personal_email and mobile via /personal_emails/ and POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/
Attach to the business record and flag owner-reachable

Inputs	Outputs
local business record	`owner personal_email`
owner name / business email / phone	`owner phone_number`
	`owner-reachable flag`

Open the recipe: Reach SMB owners who have no professional profile

Fields

Fields you get back

prospect list
revealed personal_email
phone_number
work_email
personal_email
fill status
owner personal_email
owner phone_number
owner-reachable flag

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

Who owns this

Who evaluates personal emails at B2B data providers 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 B2B data providers using Forager for personal emails · plus other teams using personal emails

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.
SeekOut
- Talent intelligence
Selected use case: Forager’s people data feed, used to keep candidate profiles current.

2–3 years on the Forager people data feed, by SeekOut’s own account¹
Bitscale
- GTM workflow builders
Selected use case: Forager in its contact waterfall for mobile numbers.
Orbital
- Lead databases
Selected use case: contact lookups in its enrichment waterfall, for teams selling to local businesses.
Dynasty Financial Partners
- Internal use
Firm that helps financial advisors build and grow independent practices.
SBR2TH
- Staffing firms
Selected use case: people and job-postings feeds loaded into its own data lake for AI search.
Freckle
- GTM workflow builders
Selected use case: Forager as a selectable mobile number provider in its waterfalls.

Sources

¹ SeekOut: SeekOut, customer interview, Sep 2026.

“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

Pull a sample. Take profiles your users looked up last week.
Run it. Use a self-serve key, or book a demo and send us the list.
Measure what your users feel. Connect rate for mobiles, bounces for emails, and whether the right person answers.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do B2B data providers use Forager personal emails?

Run a self-serve prospect database where SMB sellers search for free and pay only for found contacts. Personal email addresses for reaching people outside their work inbox, such as passive candidates and founders. This page walks through 3 workflows with the exact steps.

What do personal emails cost for B2B data providers?

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 B2B data providers workflows use personal emails?

Power a self-serve, pay-per-found contact database with a licensed people feed, fill missing emails and mobiles in user-uploaded CSVs and reach SMB owners who have no professional profile. Each is on this page with its trigger, steps and outcome.

How do I build a B2B contact database product?

Load people_feed and company_feed into the search index. Expose filters for industry, size, title and location.

What do I send, and what comes back?

You send profile URL, company domain and CSV (name, company, LinkedIn URL, email). You get back personal_email, phone_number, work_email and company profile, 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 can I fill in missing emails and phone numbers for a spreadsheet of contacts?

Fill work_email, personal_email and mobile via person_contacts_lookup endpoints. Return the CSV with fill status per field and credits used.

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.