When to use it: An agency imports its historic talent pool or a new requisition opens.
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/
Refresh personal_email and mobile
Re-index so silver-medalist candidates appear in new searches
Inputs
Outputs
ATS export (name, email, LinkedIn URL)
current role_title
current employer
personal_email
phone_number
Lead recipe 2
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 personal emails 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 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.
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.
Leelu
AI candidate sourcing
Team behind the Leelu AI recruiting copilot.
MarketMapr
Talent intelligence
Selected use case: licensed people and company feeds that let recruiters map a whole niche.
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 applicant tracking systems use Forager personal emails?
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Update old applicants' current roles and contacts so they show up in new searches and can be re-engaged. 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 applicant tracking systems?
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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 applicant tracking systems add personal emails?
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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 personal emails 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 inputs does it take and what does it return?
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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 our users see Forager data in 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.
Can applicant tracking systems test personal emails for free?
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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 former colleagues for referrals?
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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).
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.
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.
Where can I use Forager personal emails?
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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.
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