When to use it: A member saves a job posting or asks the coach which roles to pursue this week.
Pull matching postings for the member's target titles and locations with POST /job_search/
Find the likely hiring manager and team lead at the employer with POST /person_role_search/ (department, seniority, organization_domains)
Fetch work_email from /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/
Draft a short direct note for the member and track replies per application
Inputs
Outputs
target titles
job posting
locations
hiring manager
saved postings
work_email
Lead recipe 2
Suggest referral candidates from employees' former colleagues
When to use it: A new requisition opens, or an employee opens the referral page.
Show the steps
Fetch the employee's history with POST /person_detail_lookup/ (linkedin_public_identifier)
Find people who held roles at the same organizations in overlapping years with POST /person_role_search/ (organizations, role_position_start_date, role_position_end_date)
Keep those whose current role_title fits the open requisition
After the employee agrees to refer, fetch a personal email via POST /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/ for the outreach
Who evaluates people search 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 people search · plus other teams using people searchSelected teams using Forager for people search
Leelu
AI candidate sourcing
Team behind the Leelu AI recruiting copilot.
Pin.com
AI candidate sourcing
AI recruiting platform that sources candidates and runs multi-channel outreach for recruiters.
kiluz
Internal use
Career-coaching provider in France.
skillconomy
AI candidate sourcing
AI active-sourcing service for professional and leadership roles.
Coram
Internal use
Selected use case: mobile numbers for outbound calling.
Jolly
Internal use
Incentive platform for frontline and deskless teams.
Disguise
Internal use
Visual experience platform for live events and virtual production.
Intro
AI candidate sourcing
Selected use case: phone numbers for outreach to passive candidates.
“Forager leads in accuracy across all regions, Forager's dual strength in accuracy and volume makes it a powerhouse for sales teams that are targeting businesses around the globe.”
ClayStefan K.Data Partnerships
800M+people
65M+companies
How to test it
Test people search 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 people search?
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Let a career-coaching or job-search platform show members who likely owns each open role and how to reach them directly. Find the people who hold a role at target companies, filtered by title, seniority, department and location. This page walks through 3 workflows with the exact steps.
What does people search cost for HR tech companies?
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People search: people search 1 credit per request and people search: role details 1 credit per request, charged whether or not data comes back. 1,000 search requests use 1,000 credits: about $13 of Starter credits month to month, or about $10 on Pro with yearly billing. Self-serve plans are Starter, Growth, Pro and Scale. See plans and prices
Which HR tech workflows use people search?
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Help job seekers reach the hiring manager behind a job posting, suggest referral candidates from employees' former colleagues and rebuild a corporate alumni list for boomerang hiring. Each is on this page with its trigger, steps and outcome.
How do I find the hiring manager for a job posting?
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Pull matching postings for the member's target titles and locations with POST /job_search/. Find the likely hiring manager and team lead at the employer with POST /person_role_search/ (department, seniority, organization_domains).
What do I send, and what comes back?
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You send company organization id, employee LinkedIn URL and locations. You get back personal email, current employer and title, former colleagues who fit the role and former employees, from POST /person_role_search/, as JSON.
Am I charged when nothing is found?
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Yes. People search is charged per request, whether or not data comes back. Only mobile and email lookups are free when nothing is found, so try your inputs on a small run before you scale.
Is there a free way to try Forager?
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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 find former colleagues for referrals?
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Fetch the employee's history with POST /person_detail_lookup/ (linkedin_public_identifier). Find people who held roles at the same organizations in overlapping years with POST /person_role_search/ (organizations, role_position_start_date, role_position_end_date).
How do you check data quality?
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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 people search API different from searching profiles by hand?
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Searching by hand works for a handful of accounts. A people search API filters by title, seniority, department and location across your target companies in one request, returns people your product can act on, and hands off to a contact lookup for the mobile or email.
Does Forager integrate with the tools we already use?
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Native in Clay, partner-built in Deepline and Cargo and called through the API from your own code. Everything else connects through the REST API with one API key.
Is there a contract or minimum commitment?
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No contract to start: a free account comes with $5 in credits. To keep using people search, 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.
Written answers are not available right now. The matching pages above still help, or book a demo and ask the team.
