Who evaluates mobile numbers at HR tech 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 HR tech using Forager for mobile numbers · plus other teams using mobile numbersA selection of teams using Forager
Nooks
Power & parallel dialers
Selected use case: mobile numbers inside their dialer.
Amplemarket
AI SDRs
Selected use case: mobile numbers inside its contact waterfall.
Clay
GTM workflow builders
Selected use case: Forager mobile numbers, emails and people data inside Clay tables.
Airscale
Waterfall enrichment
Selected use case: a Forager step in its mobile number waterfall.
Orbital
Lead databases
Selected use case: contact lookups in its enrichment waterfall, for teams selling to local businesses.
BetterContact
Waterfall enrichment
Selected use case: a Forager step in its waterfall for mobile numbers.
Intro
AI candidate sourcing
Selected use case: phone numbers for outreach to passive candidates.
Leelu
AI candidate sourcing
Team behind the Leelu AI recruiting copilot.
“Forager's great for accuracy, the numbers we get from them are consistently the highest grade for accuracy and confidence. They've earned our trust when connect rates matter most.”
OrbitalAaron JosephHead of BizOps
800M+people
65M+companies
How to test it
Test mobile numbers 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.
How do HR tech companies use Forager mobile numbers?
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Let recruiters contact a shortlisted candidate immediately with a personal email or mobile shown on the card. Direct mobile numbers for a person, from a LinkedIn URL or a Forager person ID, validated before they reach you. This page walks through 3 workflows with the exact steps.
What do mobile numbers cost for HR tech companies?
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Mobile numbers: 15 credits per mobile number found, and a mobile number lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits. That is $0.20 per mobile number on Starter month to month and $0.15 on Pro with yearly billing. Self-serve plans are Starter, Growth, Pro and Scale. See plans and prices
Which HR tech workflows use mobile numbers?
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Show verified contact details on every AI-sourced candidate card, refresh stale ATS candidate records so past applicants resurface and reach passive candidates on phone and WhatsApp, not just email. Each is on this page with its trigger, steps and outcome.
How AI recruiting tools find candidate emails?
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Resolve the candidate with POST /person_detail_lookup/ (linkedin_public_identifier). Fetch personal_email (preferred for passive candidates), then mobile and work_email.
What inputs does it take and what does it return?
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You send candidate profile URL, ATS export (name, email, LinkedIn URL) and candidate LinkedIn identifier. You get back personal_email, phone_number, channel response and contact status, from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/, as JSON.
Am I charged when no mobile number is found?
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No. A mobile number lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits, so you pay for mobile numbers we find. Search, enrichment and reverse lookups are the exception: they are charged per request.
Can HR tech companies test mobile numbers for free?
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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 update outdated candidate records in my ATS?
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Match ATS records by email with POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/ or by LinkedIn identifier. Update current role_title, employer and skills from POST /person_detail_lookup/.
How do you check data quality?
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Forager ranked #1 of 10 in Clay's 2026 test of mobile data providers, by quality score: Clay's measure of how likely a dialled number reaches the right person. 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 mobile number lookup API different from a contact database?
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A contact database sells access to a list, often by seat or by export. A lookup API answers one person at a time inside your product or workflow: you send the LinkedIn URL or email you already hold and get back a mobile number in one JSON response. With Forager a mobile number lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits, so you pay for numbers, not for searches.
Where can I use Forager mobile numbers?
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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?
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Not to test: a free account comes with $5 in credits. To keep using mobile numbers, 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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