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Reverse email lookup API for sales tech

Know who is behind the email.

What sales tech teams need from reverse email lookup, what Forager returns, and how teams like yours test it.

3 recipes use reverse email lookup for sales tech teams.

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

A selection of teams in sales tech using Forager for reverse email lookup · plus other teams in sales tech

  • Clay
  • Deepline
  • Nooks
  • Scalestack
  • Amplemarket
  • HubSpot
  • Freckle
  • Orbital
For sales tech teams
The job
Match more of a CRM or marketing list to professional profiles so ABM audiences reach the intended people.
When
Marketing uploads a contact list as a matched ad audience and sees a low match rate.
Outcome
ABM campaigns reach more of the intended accounts on social ad platforms.
Lead recipe 1

Resolve email lists to professional profiles to lift ad match rates

When to use it: Marketing uploads a contact list as a matched ad audience and sees a low match rate.

  1. Send each email (work or personal) to POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/
  2. Collect the public profile identifier and current organization from the response
  3. Upload matched profiles alongside emails as the matched audience
  4. Compare match rate against the email-only upload
InputsOutputs
CRM or marketing email listpublic profile identifier
current organization
role_title
Lead recipe 2

Ground AI CRM agents with fresh company and people records

When to use it: A new sign-up, inbound lead or scheduled refresh of the CRM's company universe.

Show the steps
  1. Load company_feed and people_feed deltas into the CRM's records store
  2. Prefill onboarding from a sign-up's work email via POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/ and POST /organization_search/
  3. Expose records to agents as retrieval context with field-level timestamps
  4. Use job_postings_feed and people changes as scoring and churn-risk signals
InputsOutputs
feedsfresh company record
sign-up emailprefilled onboarding fields
CRM recordsagent context
risk signals
Open the recipe: Ground AI CRM agents with fresh company and people records
Lead recipe 3

Merge CRM duplicates that use a personal and a work email

When to use it: A scheduled dedupe run, or a new contact is created with a personal email.

Show the steps
  1. Resolve personal-email contacts with POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/
  2. Match the returned LinkedIn identifier, or full name plus current employer domain from roles, against existing work-email contacts
  3. Propose merges for the user to approve, keeping both emails on the surviving record
  4. Where no work email exists yet, request one via /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/
InputsOutputs
CRM contacts with personal emailsduplicate pairs
CRM contacts with work emailsmerged record
current employer
work_email
Open the recipe: Merge CRM duplicates that use a personal and a work email
Fields

Fields you get back

  • public profile identifier
  • current organization
  • role_title
  • fresh company record
  • prefilled onboarding fields
  • agent context
  • risk signals
  • duplicate pairs
  • merged record
  • current employer
  • work_email

From the workflows above. Full field reference: Reverse email lookup and the Reverse email lookup API reference.

Who owns this

Who evaluates reverse email lookup 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 reverse email lookup · plus other teams in sales tech

  • Clay
    • GTM workflow builders

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

  • Deepline
    • Waterfall enrichment

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

    19 typed Forager tools available inside Deepline1

  • Nooks
    • Power & parallel dialers

    Selected use case: mobile numbers inside their dialer.

  • Scalestack
    • GTM workflow builders

    Context and data infrastructure for enterprise GTM agents.

  • Amplemarket
    • AI SDRs

    Selected use case: mobile numbers inside its contact waterfall.

  • HubSpot
    • CRM add-ons

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

  • Freckle
    • GTM workflow builders

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

  • Orbital
    • Lead databases

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

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 reverse email lookup 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 reverse email lookup?

Match more of a CRM or marketing list to professional profiles so ABM audiences reach the intended people. Turn an email address into a full person profile: name, title, company, location and social links. This page walks through 3 workflows with the exact steps.

What does reverse email lookup cost for sales-tech companies?

Reverse email lookup: 5 credits per request, charged whether or not data comes back. 1,000 reverse email lookups use 5,000 credits: about $67 of Starter credits month to month, or about $50 on Pro with yearly billing. Self-serve plans are Starter, Growth, Pro and Scale. See plans and prices

Which sales-tech workflows use reverse email lookup?

Resolve email lists to professional profiles to lift ad match rates, ground AI CRM agents with fresh company and people records and merge CRM duplicates that use a personal and a work email. Each is on this page with its trigger, steps and outcome.

How can I improve my matched audience match rate?

Upload matched profiles alongside emails as the matched audience. Compare match rate against the email-only upload.

What do I send, and what comes back?

You send CRM contacts with personal emails, CRM contacts with work emails and CRM or marketing email list. You get back agent context, current employer, current organization and duplicate pairs, from POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/, as JSON.

Am I charged when nothing is found?

Yes. Reverse email lookup 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.

How do AI CRMs keep company data fresh for their agents?

Load company_feed and people_feed deltas into the CRM's records store. Expose records to agents as retrieval context with field-level timestamps.

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.

What is the difference between a reverse email lookup and an email finder?

An email finder starts from a person and returns their email. A reverse email lookup starts from an email address, such as a sign-up or an inbound lead, and returns the person behind it: name, title, company, location and social links.

Does Forager integrate with the tools we already use?

Native in Clay, 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 reverse email lookup, 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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