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GTM agencies & consultancies · Outbound / lead-gen agencies

Mobile number API for outbound agencies

Reach the right person.

What outbound agencies need from mobile numbers, what Forager returns, and how teams like yours test it.

3 recipes use mobile numbers for outbound / lead-gen agencies.

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

A selection of outbound agencies using Forager for mobile numbers · plus other GTM agencies

  • Nooks
  • Amplemarket
  • Clay
  • Airscale
  • Worxwide Consulting
  • Orbital
  • BetterContact
  • AltiSales
For outbound / lead-gen agencies
The job
Give an agency's BDRs scored, callable lists for each client market so connect rates hold across clients.
When
An agency onboards a new client or market.
Outcome
Agency clients get booked meetings from higher pickup rates across every market.
Lead recipe 1

Build dialer-ready call lists for an outsourced BDR team

When to use it: An agency onboards a new client or market.

  1. Translate the client ICP into POST /person_role_search/ queries
  2. Fetch mobiles via POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ (Gold for quality, Silver for reach)
  3. Score and order numbers before calling
  4. Report connect rate and meetings per client
InputsOutputs
client ICPcall list
persona titlesphone_number
territorydial order
Lead recipe 2

Multi-thread Fortune 500 accounts by function for enterprise outbound

When to use it: An agency client targets large mid-market and Fortune 500 accounts.

Show the steps
  1. Enrich target accounts with POST /organization_search/ (employees, industry)
  2. Search each function (ops, IT, finance, HR) with POST /person_role_search/
  3. For HR-tech clients, rank employers by hiring volume from POST /job_search/
  4. Enrich contacts and run function-specific messaging
InputsOutputs
enterprise account listcontacts by function
functions to coverwork_email
phone_number
hiring volume
Open the recipe: Multi-thread Fortune 500 accounts by function for enterprise outbound
Lead recipe 3

Book founder and investor meetings for M&A and capital advisors

When to use it: An advisor takes a sell-side, buy-side or fundraising mandate and needs conversations with owners or investors fast.

Show the steps
  1. Find companies that fit the mandate by industry, size, location and founding year with POST /organization_search/
  2. Find founders, owners and CEOs (or partners at investment firms) with POST /person_role_search/
  3. Fetch work_email via /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ and Gold mobiles via POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/
  4. Run discreet, personalised outreach and log conversations per mandate
InputsOutputs
mandate criteriaowner-founder list
sectorinvestor list
geographywork_email
phone_number
Open the recipe: Book founder and investor meetings for M&A and capital advisors
Fields

Fields you get back

  • call list
  • phone_number
  • dial order
  • contacts by function
  • work_email
  • hiring volume
  • owner-founder list
  • investor list

From the workflows above. Full field reference: Mobile numbers and the Mobile numbers API reference.

Gold or Silver

Gold or Silver for outbound / lead-gen agencies: request Gold

Your users place the call, so the number has to connect. Gold is our highest-confidence set.

How the tiers work
Silver · Most coverage 9 credits Gold 15 credits
Who owns this

Who evaluates mobile numbers at outbound / lead-gen agencies, 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 outbound agencies using Forager for mobile numbers · plus other GTM agencies

  • Nooks
    • Power & parallel dialers

    Selected use case: mobile numbers inside their dialer.

  • Amplemarket
    • AI SDRs

    Selected use case: mobile numbers inside its contact waterfall.

  • Clay
    • GTM workflow builders

    Selected use case: Forager mobile numbers, emails and people data inside Clay tables.

  • Airscale
    • Waterfall enrichment

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

  • Worxwide Consulting
    • Consultancies

    ABM, AI SDR and Salesforce consultancy for enterprises.

  • 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.

  • AltiSales
    • Outbound agencies

    Outsourced SDR and GTM firm.

“Forager's great for accuracy, the numbers we get from them are consistently the highest grade for accuracy and confidence. They've earned our trust when connect rates matter most.”
OrbitalAaron JosephHead of BizOps
800M+people
65M+companies
How to test it

Test mobile numbers 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 outbound agencies use Forager mobile numbers?

Give an agency's BDRs scored, callable lists for each client market so connect rates hold across clients. Direct mobile numbers for a person, from a LinkedIn URL or a Forager person ID, validated before they reach you. This page walks through 3 workflows with the exact steps.

What do mobile numbers cost for outbound agencies?

Mobile numbers: 15 credits per mobile number found, and a mobile number lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits. That is $0.20 per mobile number on Starter month to month and $0.15 on Pro with yearly billing. Self-serve plans are Starter, Growth, Pro and Scale. See plans and prices

Why do outbound agencies add mobile numbers?

Book client meetings without burning dead numbers. Products like yours are judged on contacts that connect for every client, which is why the cost that counts is per result that reaches the right person. Run your own sample to see what mobile numbers returns for your users before you build on it.

Where do outbound agencies get phone numbers for cold calling?

Give an agency's BDRs scored, callable lists for each client market so connect rates hold across clients. Agency clients get booked meetings from higher pickup rates across every market.

What do I send, and what comes back?

You send client ICP, territory and brand size band. You get back phone_number, work_email, brand list and buying committee per account, from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/, as JSON.

Can we show Forager data inside 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 mobile number is found?

No. A mobile number lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits, so you pay for mobile numbers we find. Search, enrichment and reverse lookups are the exception: they are charged per request.

Is there a free way to try Forager?

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 hr leaders at high volume hiring companies?

Enrich target accounts with POST /organization_search/ (employees, industry). For HR-tech clients, rank employers by hiring volume from POST /job_search/.

How accurate is Forager data?

Forager ranked #1 of 10 in Clay's 2026 test of mobile data providers, by quality score: Clay's measure of how likely a dialled number reaches the right person. 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 a mobile number lookup API different from a contact database?

A contact database sells access to a list, often by seat or by export. A lookup API answers one person at a time inside your product or workflow: you send the LinkedIn URL or email you already hold and get back a mobile number in one JSON response. With Forager a mobile number lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits, so you pay for numbers, not for searches.

Does Forager integrate with the tools we already use?

Native in Clay and Zapier, 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.

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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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  • Clay
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