Who evaluates personal emails at vendors that resell or blend contact data, 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 contact-data vendors using Forager for personal emails · plus other teams on ForagerA 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
Bitscale
GTM workflow builders
Selected use case: Forager in its contact waterfall for mobile numbers.
Orbital
Lead databases
Selected use case: contact lookups in its enrichment waterfall, for teams selling to local businesses.
Intro
AI candidate sourcing
Selected use case: phone numbers for outreach to passive candidates.
Kalkine
Internal use
Equities research publisher.
Freckle
GTM workflow builders
Selected use case: Forager as a selectable mobile number provider in its waterfalls.
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 contact-data vendors use Forager personal emails?
⌄
Run a self-serve prospect database where SMB sellers search for free and pay only for found contacts. 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 contact-data vendors?
⌄
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 contact-data vendors add personal emails?
⌄
Add a mobile source without adding wrong-person numbers. Products like yours are judged on valid finds per dollar, 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 build a B2B contact database product?
⌄
Load people_feed and company_feed into the search index. Expose filters for industry, size, title and location.
What inputs does it take and what does it return?
⌄
You send profile URL, candidate profile URL and company domain. You get back personal_email, phone_number, match (bool) and work_email, as JSON.
Can our users see Forager data in our product?
⌄
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?
⌄
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 contact-data vendors test personal emails for free?
⌄
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 can I fill in missing emails and phone numbers for a spreadsheet of contacts?
⌄
Fill work_email, personal_email and mobile via person_contacts_lookup endpoints. Return the CSV with fill status per field and credits used.
How accurate is Forager data?
⌄
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?
⌄
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?
⌄
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.
