$5 free Limited time. Sign up to activate. Get your $5 →
Industry · Sales tech

People search API for sales tech

Find the right person.

What sales tech teams need from people search, what Forager returns, and how teams like yours test it.

8 recipes use people search for sales tech teams.

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

A selection of teams in sales tech using Forager for people search

  • Clay
  • Bitscale
  • Nooks
  • Deepline
  • HubSpot
  • Cortex Intelligence
  • Jeeva AI
  • Epoch
For sales tech teams
The job
Let an AI SDR turn a natural-language prompt into a running sequence with verified emails and phones for every prospect.
When
A rep asks the AI SDR to 'find heads of finance at Series B fintechs in Germany and start a sequence'.
Outcome
Reps go from prompt to a running sequence in minutes and run more efficient outbound.
Lead recipe 1

Power an AI SDR's email and phone waterfall from a chat prompt

When to use it: A rep asks the AI SDR to 'find heads of finance at Series B fintechs in Germany and start a sequence'.

  1. Agent translates the prompt into POST /person_role_search/ filters (role_title, organization_industries, person_locations)
  2. Use /person_role_search/totals/ to size the audience before paying for pages
  3. Enrich each result with /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ and /phone_numbers/
  4. Drop contacts without a verified channel and write the rest to the sequence
  5. Report found rate per channel to the platform's waterfall router
InputsOutputs
natural-language promptperson name
ICP filtersrole_title
organization
work_email
phone_number
Lead recipe 2

Extend phone and email coverage for European outbound

When to use it: An outbound team expands into EMEA or France and sees high bounces and missing phones on European lists.

Show the steps
  1. Build EMEA persona lists with POST /person_role_search/ (person_locations, role_title)
  2. Get work_email via /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ and drop unverified addresses
  3. Add direct mobiles from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ for phone-first markets
  4. Apply the team's regional consent and do-not-call rules before sequencing
  5. Track bounce and connect rate by country
InputsOutputs
target countrieswork_email
persona titlesphone_number
account listperson location
role_title
Open the recipe: Extend phone and email coverage for European outbound
Lead recipe 3

Build an AI SDR's daily call list from hiring signals

When to use it: Each morning, new job postings appear at accounts that match the ICP.

Show the steps
  1. Query POST /job_search/ (title, date_featured_start = yesterday, locations) for roles that imply need
  2. Group postings by organization and score by volume and recency
  3. Find the hiring manager or buyer with POST /person_role_search/ (organizations, role_title)
  4. Add mobiles via POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ and deliver a ranked daily batch to the dialer
InputsOutputs
ICP role keywordsorganization
territoryjob title + date_featured
daily date windowbuyer name
role_title
phone_number
Open the recipe: Build an AI SDR's daily call list from hiring signals
Fields

Fields you get back

  • person name
  • role_title
  • organization
  • work_email
  • phone_number
  • person location
  • job title + date_featured
  • buyer name

From the workflows above. Full field reference: People search and the People search API reference.

Who owns this

Who evaluates people search at sales 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 sales tech using Forager for people search

  • Clay
    • GTM workflow builders

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

  • Bitscale
    • GTM workflow builders

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

  • Nooks
    • Power & parallel dialers

    Selected use case: mobile numbers inside their dialer.

  • Deepline
    • Waterfall enrichment

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

    19 typed Forager tools available inside Deepline1

  • HubSpot
    • CRM add-ons

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

  • Cortex Intelligence
    • ABM & intent

    GTM intelligence platform for account research and outbound.

  • Jeeva AI
    • AI SDRs

    Agentic platform of AI digital workers for sales teams.

  • Epoch
    • ABM & intent

    B2B event marketing platform.

Sources

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

“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

  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
  • Run your sample
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do sales-tech companies use Forager people search?

Let an AI SDR turn a natural-language prompt into a running sequence with verified emails and phones for every prospect. 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 sales-tech companies?

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 sales-tech workflows use people search?

Power an AI SDR's email and phone waterfall from a chat prompt, extend phone and email coverage for European outbound and build an AI SDR's daily call list from hiring signals. Each is on this page with its trigger, steps and outcome.

How AI SDR tools find verified emails?

Enrich each result with /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ and /phone_numbers/. Drop contacts without a verified channel and write the rest to the sequence.

What do I send, and what comes back?

You send persona titles, account list and company domain. You get back role_title, work_email, phone_number and organization, from POST /person_role_search/, as JSON.

Am I charged when nothing is found?

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?

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.

Which B2B data sources have good phone coverage in Europe?

The workflow uses Forager Mobile numbers, Work emails, Person enrichment and People search. Mobile numbers: Direct mobile numbers for a person, from a LinkedIn URL or a Forager person ID, validated before they reach you. Give a global outbound team usable mobiles and work emails for EMEA and French/EU decision makers where US-centric sources run thin.

How do I know the data is right?

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?

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?

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?

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.

More

More recipes

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
Platforms and teams that build on Forager
  • Clay
  • Juicebox
  • Nooks
  • Andela
  • HubSpot
  • SeekOut