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Personal email API for sales tech

Reach people off the work inbox.

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

2 recipes use personal emails for sales tech teams.

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

A selection of teams in sales tech using Forager for personal emails

  • Clay
  • Juicebox
  • Nooks
  • Bitscale
  • HubSpot
  • Orbital
  • BetterContact
  • Freckle
For sales tech teams
The job
Give GTM engineers a mobile, email and person provider they can drop into any table, workflow or waterfall step, billed in platform credits.
When
A workflow-builder platform adds or re-ranks providers in its marketplace.
Outcome
GTM teams raise enrichment coverage across critical fields without separate vendor contracts.
Lead recipe 1

Offer mobile and email enrichment as native actions in a GTM workflow builder

When to use it: A workflow-builder platform adds or re-ranks providers in its marketplace.

  1. Expose person_detail_lookup, work_emails, personal_emails, phone_numbers and organization_search as native actions with field mapping
  2. Let users chain the actions as waterfall steps after or before other providers
  3. Bill end users in platform credits and settle against committed provider credits
  4. Report per-provider hit rate in the UI to guide waterfall order
InputsOutputs
table rows with LinkedIn URL, email or name + domainphone_number
work_email
personal_email
role_title
organization firmographics
Lead recipe 2

Enrich lead list exports with email and mobile in one click

When to use it: A rep exports or saves a lead list of profile URLs and wants to launch a sequence.

Show the steps
  1. Parse the export for linkedin_public_identifier per lead
  2. Confirm current role with POST /person_detail_lookup/
  3. Get work email from POST /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ and poll the job until it completes
  4. Add personal email and mobile from /personal_emails/ and /phone_numbers/
  5. Push enriched leads into the sequence with channel steps set by available fields
InputsOutputs
lead list exportwork_email
LinkedIn profile URLspersonal_email
phone_number
role_title
organization domain
Open the recipe: Enrich lead list exports with email and mobile in one click
Fields

Fields you get back

  • phone_number
  • work_email
  • personal_email
  • role_title
  • organization firmographics
  • organization domain

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

Who owns this

Who evaluates personal emails 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 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.

  • Nooks
    • Power & parallel dialers

    Selected use case: mobile numbers inside their dialer.

  • Bitscale
    • GTM workflow builders

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

  • HubSpot
    • CRM add-ons

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

  • 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.

  • Freckle
    • GTM workflow builders

    Selected use case: Forager as a selectable mobile number provider in its waterfalls.

“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

  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 sales-tech companies use Forager personal emails?

Give GTM engineers a mobile, email and person provider they can drop into any table, workflow or waterfall step, billed in platform credits. Personal email addresses for reaching people outside their work inbox, such as passive candidates and founders. This page walks through 2 workflows with the exact steps.

What do personal emails cost for sales-tech companies?

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 sales-tech workflows use personal emails?

Offer mobile and email enrichment as native actions in a GTM workflow builder and enrich lead list exports with email and mobile in one click. Each is on this page with its trigger, steps and outcome.

How do I add mobile number provider to GTM workflow builder?

Expose person_detail_lookup, work_emails, personal_emails, phone_numbers and organization_search as native actions with field mapping. Let users chain the actions as waterfall steps after or before other providers.

What do I send, and what comes back?

You send lead list export, LinkedIn profile URLs and table rows with LinkedIn URL, email or name + domain. You get back personal_email, phone_number, role_title and work_email, 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 do I enrich lead list with emails and phone numbers?

Parse the export for linkedin_public_identifier per lead. Add personal email and mobile from /personal_emails/ and /phone_numbers/.

How do you check data quality?

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.

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