Who evaluates personal emails at AI candidate search and sourcing, 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 AI candidate-sourcing tools using Forager for personal emails · plus other recruiting platformsA 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.
Intro
AI candidate sourcing
Selected use case: phone numbers for outreach to passive candidates.
Pin.com
AI candidate sourcing
AI recruiting platform that sources candidates and runs multi-channel outreach for recruiters.
skillconomy
AI candidate sourcing
AI active-sourcing service for professional and leadership roles.
Leelu
AI candidate sourcing
Team behind the Leelu AI recruiting copilot.
Weekday
AI candidate sourcing
AI sourcing agent that finds passive tech candidates and contacts them directly.
Hyre
AI candidate sourcing
Agentic recruitment platform for agencies in the Netherlands and Europe.
“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 AI candidate sourcing use Forager personal emails?
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Let recruiters contact a shortlisted candidate immediately with a personal email or mobile shown on the card. 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 AI candidate sourcing?
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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
Why do AI candidate sourcing add personal emails?
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Show personal email and mobile on every candidate card. Products like yours are judged on candidate replies, which is why the cost that counts is per result that reaches the right person. Run your own sample to see what personal emails returns for your users before you build on it.
How AI recruiting tools find candidate emails?
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Resolve the candidate with POST /person_detail_lookup/ (linkedin_public_identifier). Fetch personal_email (preferred for passive candidates), then mobile and work_email.
What do I send, and what comes back?
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You send LinkedIn identifiers, ATS export (name, email, LinkedIn URL) and candidate LinkedIn identifier. You get back personal_email, phone_number, personal email and candidate shortlist, as JSON.
Can we show Forager data inside our product?
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Yes, under platform terms. Self-serve plans cover internal use by your own team. Showing Forager contacts to your users, or passing records on, is licensed separately: talk to sales about volume and which fields your users need to see.
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 personal email of passive candidates?
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Fetch personal_email via /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/. Send a personalised email sequence from the recruiting platform.
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.
Written answers are not available right now. The matching pages above still help, or book a demo and ask the team.
