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Work email API for B2B data providers

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

4 recipes use work emails for B2B data providers teams.

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

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

  • Clay
  • Juicebox
  • HubSpot
  • Andela
  • Coram
  • Orbital
  • Disguise
  • BetterContact
For B2B data providers teams
The job
Raise mobile and contact coverage inside a contact-data product by blending a complementary source behind existing data.
When
The vendor's customers report missing mobiles in target regions or segments.
Outcome
Same process for the vendor's customers, with more connected decision-makers.
Lead recipe 1

Back a sales-intelligence database with an additional mobile source

When to use it: The vendor's customers report missing mobiles in target regions or segments.

  1. Send records lacking a mobile to POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ in bulk
  2. Cross-validate returned numbers against the vendor's existing records
  3. Store results under the reseller licence with provenance
  4. Surface the blended number in the product and track connect feedback
InputsOutputs
vendor contact recordsphone_number
LinkedIn identifierstier
provenance
validation result
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
  1. Normalise columns and resolve each row with POST /person_detail_lookup/ or /person_role_search/ (person_name + organization_domains)
  2. Fill work_email, personal_email and mobile via person_contacts_lookup endpoints
  3. Return the CSV with fill status per field and credits used
  4. Bill only filled fields
InputsOutputs
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

Add an additional email source to an email finder's lookup chain

When to use it: An email finder's not-found rate climbs on a segment (new hires, small companies, a region) and users churn to competitors.

Show the steps
  1. Send not-found requests to POST /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ after the vendor's own index
  2. Add /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/ for users who prospect founders or candidates
  3. Use people_feed deliveries to detect job changes and re-verify emails in the vendor's index
  4. Log per-source found rate and bounce rate to tune order
InputsOutputs
name + company domainwork_email
profile URLpersonal_email
source
found (bool)
Open the recipe: Add an additional email source to an email finder's lookup chain
Fields

Fields you get back

  • phone_number
  • tier
  • provenance
  • validation result
  • work_email
  • personal_email
  • fill status
  • source
  • found (bool)

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

Who owns this

Who evaluates work 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 work emails · plus other teams using work 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.

  • HubSpot
    • CRM add-ons

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

  • Andela
    • Customer

    Selected use case: Forager data for the go-to-market team at a global talent marketplace.

  • Coram
    • Internal use

    Selected use case: mobile numbers for outbound calling.

  • Orbital
    • Lead databases

    Selected use case: contact lookups in its enrichment waterfall, for teams selling to local businesses.

  • Disguise
    • Internal use

    Visual experience platform for live events and virtual production.

  • BetterContact
    • Waterfall enrichment

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

“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 work 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 B2B data providers use Forager work emails?

Raise mobile and contact coverage inside a contact-data product by blending a complementary source behind existing data. Verified work email addresses for a person at their current employer. This page walks through 3 workflows with the exact steps.

What do work emails cost for B2B data providers?

Work emails: 5 credits per work email found, and a work email lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits. That is $0.07 per work 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 work emails?

Back a sales-intelligence database with an additional mobile source, fill missing emails and mobiles in user-uploaded CSVs and add an additional email source to an email finder's lookup chain. Each is on this page with its trigger, steps and outcome.

How do I license mobile phone data for resale?

Send records lacking a mobile to POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ in bulk. Cross-validate returned numbers against the vendor's existing records.

What inputs does it take and what does it return?

You send contact list with LinkedIn URLs, CSV (name, company, LinkedIn URL, email) and LinkedIn identifiers. You get back personal_email, phone_number, work_email and current employer, from POST /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/, as JSON.

Am I charged when no work email is found?

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

Can B2B data providers test work emails for free?

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.

How is a work email finder different from guessing the email pattern?

A pattern guess (first.last@company.com) gives you an address that may not exist or may belong to someone who left. A work email lookup returns the address for that person at their current employer, and with Forager a work email lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits.

Where can I use Forager work emails?

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

Do I need a subscription?

Not to test: a free account comes with $5 in credits. To keep using work 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.

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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.

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