Who evaluates personal emails at staffing & recruiting 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 staffing & recruiting using Forager for personal emailsA selection of teams using Forager
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.
SeekOut
Talent intelligence
Selected use case: Forager’s people data feed, used to keep candidate profiles current.
2–3 years on the Forager people data feed, by SeekOut’s own account1
Velox
Staffing firms
Technical staffing firm in the Netherlands.
Intro
AI candidate sourcing
Selected use case: phone numbers for outreach to passive candidates.
SBR2TH
Staffing firms
Selected use case: people and job-postings feeds loaded into its own data lake for AI search.
MarketMapr
Talent intelligence
Selected use case: licensed people and company feeds that let recruiters map a whole niche.
PrimeHammer
Staffing firms
Software studio in Czechia.
Sources
1 SeekOut: SeekOut, customer interview, Sep 2026.
“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
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 staffing and recruiting firms use Forager personal emails?
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Reach CEO, CFO and VP candidates discreetly on personal channels rather than monitored work inboxes. Personal email addresses for reaching people outside their work inbox, such as passive candidates and founders. This page walks through 3 workflows with the exact steps.
What do personal emails cost for staffing and recruiting firms?
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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 staffing and recruiting workflows use personal emails?
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Raise executive-search response rates with personal email and mobile, source senior and specialist engineers for staff-augmentation placements and re-engage past contractors when their assignment ends. Each is on this page with its trigger, steps and outcome.
How to contact C-suite candidates discreetly?
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Use /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/ as the first step of the personal-email waterfall. Add a direct mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ for senior candidates.
What do I send, and what comes back?
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You send executive long-list, LinkedIn identifiers and location. You get back candidate shortlist, mobile, personal email and personal_email, as JSON.
Am I charged when no personal email is found?
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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?
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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 senior engineers by skill and country?
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Search candidates by skills, title, seniority and country with POST /person_role_search/. Check tenure and previous employers with POST /person_detail_lookup/.
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.
When should I use a personal email instead of a work email?
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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?
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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?
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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.
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