Suggest referral candidates from employees' former colleagues
When to use it: A new requisition opens, or an employee opens the referral page.
Show the steps
Fetch the employee's history with POST /person_detail_lookup/ (linkedin_public_identifier)
Find people who held roles at the same organizations in overlapping years with POST /person_role_search/ (organizations, role_position_start_date, role_position_end_date)
Keep those whose current role_title fits the open requisition
After the employee agrees to refer, fetch a personal email via POST /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/ for the outreach
Who evaluates person enrichment at applicant tracking systems, 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 applicant tracking systems using Forager for person enrichment · 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.
Nooks
Power & parallel dialers
Selected use case: mobile numbers inside their dialer.
HubSpot
CRM add-ons
Selected use case: enriching contact and company records with people, company and job-posting data.
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
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.
Leelu
AI candidate sourcing
Team behind the Leelu AI recruiting copilot.
Sources
1 SeekOut: SeekOut, customer interview, Sep 2026.
“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 person enrichment 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 applicant tracking systems use Forager person enrichment?
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Update old applicants' current roles and contacts so they show up in new searches and can be re-engaged. A full professional profile for a person from a LinkedIn URL, email or phone: experience, education, skills and contact channels. This page walks through 3 workflows with the exact steps.
What does person enrichment cost for applicant tracking systems?
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Person enrichment: 1 credit per request, charged whether or not data comes back. 1,000 person enrichments 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
Why do applicant tracking systems add person enrichment?
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Reach applicants and passive candidates without stale contacts. 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 person enrichment returns for your users before you build on it.
How do I update outdated candidate records in my ATS?
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Match ATS records by email with POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/ or by LinkedIn identifier. Update current role_title, employer and skills from POST /person_detail_lookup/.
What do I send, and what comes back?
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You send LinkedIn identifiers, people feed and applicant personal email. You get back personal_email, phone_number, personal email and candidate shortlist, from POST /person_detail_lookup/, 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 data 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 nothing is found?
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Yes. Person enrichment 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?
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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 enrich job applicants with work history?
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Resolve the applicant email with POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/. Map roles, educations, skills and certifications onto the candidate profile fields.
How do I know the data is right?
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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.
How is person enrichment different from scraping profiles myself?
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Scraping means running and repairing your own collection pipeline and deciding what to do when a page changes. Person enrichment returns a structured profile (experience, education, skills and contact channels) from one API call, from data Forager licenses and maintains.
Does Forager integrate with the tools we already use?
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Native in Clay, partner-built in Deepline and Cargo 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.
