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Sales-tech & GTM platforms · Prospecting databases / lead finders

Personal email API for lead databases

Reach people off the work inbox.

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

1 recipe uses personal emails for prospecting databases / lead finders.

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

A selection of lead databases using Forager for personal emails · plus other sales-tech platforms

  • Clay
  • Juicebox
  • Nooks
  • Aydentify
  • Bitscale
  • HubSpot
  • Orbital
  • BetterContact
For prospecting databases / lead finders
The job
Let vertical SaaS reps reach the owner of a salon, restaurant or pool-service business directly instead of the front desk.
When
A vertical SaaS team starts outbound to local SMB owners.
Outcome
Vertical SaaS reps reach SMB owners directly and build outbound pipeline.
Lead recipe 1

Find the owner's mobile for local SMB accounts

When to use it: A vertical SaaS team starts outbound to local SMB owners.

  1. Resolve the owner from the business record (name + domain) with POST /person_role_search/ (role_title owner/founder, organization_domains)
  2. Get the owner's mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ (Silver for maximum reach)
  3. Add personal_email from /personal_emails/ as a second channel
  4. Load into the dialer and track decision-maker connect rate
InputsOutputs
SMB business list (name, domain, location)owner name
phone_number
personal_email
Related recipe

Offer mobile and email enrichment as native actions in a GTM workflow builder

When to use it: A workflow-builder platform adds or re-ranks providers in its marketplace.

Show the steps
  1. Expose person_detail_lookup, work_emails, personal_emails, phone_numbers and organization_search as native actions with field mapping
  2. Let users chain the actions as waterfall steps after or before other providers
  3. Bill end users in platform credits and settle against committed provider credits
  4. Report per-provider hit rate in the UI to guide waterfall order
InputsOutputs
table rows with LinkedIn URL, email or name + domainphone_number
work_email
personal_email
role_title
organization firmographics
Open the recipe: Offer mobile and email enrichment as native actions in a GTM workflow builder
Fields

Fields you get back

  • owner name
  • phone_number
  • personal_email
  • work_email
  • role_title
  • organization firmographics

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

Who owns this

Who evaluates personal emails at prospecting databases / lead finders, 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 lead databases using Forager for personal emails · plus other sales-tech platforms

  • 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.

  • Aydentify
    • Lead databases

    Lead-discovery tool that shows ingredient and packaging suppliers which consumer brands use their products.

  • Bitscale
    • GTM workflow builders

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

  • HubSpot
    • CRM add-ons

    Selected use case: enriching contact and company records with people, company and job-posting data.

  • 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.

“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 lead databases use Forager personal emails?

Let vertical SaaS reps reach the owner of a salon, restaurant or pool-service business directly instead of the front desk. 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 lead databases?

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 lead databases add personal emails?

Power your lead database without maintaining scrapers. Products like yours are judged on connect rate and cost per valid result, 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 find small business owner cell phone numbers?

Resolve the owner from the business record (name + domain) with POST /person_role_search/ (role_title owner/founder, organization_domains). Get the owner's mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ (Silver for maximum reach).

What inputs does it take and what does it return?

You send lead list export, LinkedIn profile URLs and SMB business list (name, domain, location). You get back personal_email, phone_number, role_title 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 lead databases 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 mobile number provider to GTM workflow builder?

Expose person_detail_lookup, work_emails, personal_emails, phone_numbers and organization_search as native actions with field mapping. Let users chain the actions as waterfall steps after or before other providers.

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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Put people, company and job data your users can act on inside your product

Send us a list. We run it, show you what we find, then talk volume and terms.

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  • Run your sample
Platforms and teams that build on Forager
  • Clay
  • Juicebox
  • Nooks
  • Andela
  • HubSpot
  • SeekOut