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Personal email API for data marketplaces

Reach people off the work inbox.

What data marketplaces need from personal emails, what Forager returns, and how teams like yours test it.

1 recipe uses personal emails for data marketplaces.

  • $5 free credits
  • 800M+ people
  • 65M+ companies

A selection of data marketplaces using Forager for personal emails · plus other teams on Forager

  • Clay
  • Juicebox
  • SeekOut
  • Bitscale
  • Orbital
  • BetterContact
  • Dynasty Financial Partners
  • Kalkine
For data marketplaces
The job
Let a candidate-data aggregator return personal emails and mobiles to the recruiting platforms that call its API, filling records its other sources missed.
When
A recruiting-platform customer complains about missing contact fields on candidate records.
Outcome
Recruiting platforms fill more candidate records and launch contact features quickly.
Lead recipe 1

Supply a candidate-data API with personal emails and mobiles for recruiting platforms

When to use it: A recruiting-platform customer complains about missing contact fields on candidate records.

  1. Resolve each candidate with POST /person_detail_lookup/
  2. Fetch personal_email from /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/
  3. Fetch mobiles from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ (Gold for quality, Silver for reach)
  4. Merge into the aggregator's candidate API response with source attribution and per-field credits
InputsOutputs
candidate profile URLpersonal_email
name + employerphone_number
tier
Related recipe

Resell person and reverse-email enrichment through a developer data API

When to use it: A data API vendor sees demand for identity resolution (email in, person out) and person enrichment from its developer customers.

Show the steps
  1. Map the vendor's /enrich/person endpoint to POST /person_detail_lookup/ and its company endpoint to POST /organization_search/
  2. Map email-in requests to POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/
  3. Add personal_email via /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/ for consumer-signup use cases
  4. Normalise to the vendor's schema and bill developers per matched result
InputsOutputs
emailperson profile
profile URLcompany profile
company domainpersonal_email
match (bool)
Open the recipe: Resell person and reverse-email enrichment through a developer data API
Fields

Fields you get back

  • personal_email
  • phone_number
  • tier
  • person profile
  • company profile
  • match (bool)

From the workflows above. Full field reference: Personal emails and the Personal emails API reference.

Who owns this

Who evaluates personal emails at data marketplaces, 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 data marketplaces using Forager for personal emails · plus other teams on 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.

  • BetterContact
    • Waterfall enrichment

    Selected use case: a Forager step in its waterfall for mobile numbers.

  • Dynasty Financial Partners
    • Internal use

    Firm that helps financial advisors build and grow independent practices.

  • Kalkine
    • Internal use

    Equities research publisher.

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

  1. Pull a sample. Take profiles your users looked up last week.
  2. Run it. Use a self-serve key, or book a demo and send us the list.
  3. Measure what your users feel. Connect rate for mobiles, bounces for emails, and whether the right person answers.
  • $5 free credits
  • No credit card
  • Pay per result
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do data marketplaces use Forager personal emails?

Let a candidate-data aggregator return personal emails and mobiles to the recruiting platforms that call its API, filling records its other sources missed. 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 data marketplaces?

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 data marketplaces add personal emails?

List people and company data without building it yourself. 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.

Which API provides personal emails and phone numbers for candidates?

The workflow uses Forager Personal emails, Mobile numbers and Person enrichment. Personal emails: Personal email addresses for reaching people outside their work inbox, such as passive candidates and founders. Let a candidate-data aggregator return personal emails and mobiles to the recruiting platforms that call its API, filling records its other sources missed.

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 data marketplaces 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 do I add a source to email finder?

Send not-found requests to POST /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ after the vendor's own index. Add /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/ for users who prospect founders or candidates.

How do you check data quality?

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.

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