Who evaluates mobile numbers at recruiting / staffing firms using data directly, 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 staffing firms using Forager for mobile numbers · plus other recruiting platformsA selection of teams using Forager
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.
Velox
Staffing firms
Technical staffing firm in the Netherlands.
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.
Martyn Bassett Associates
Staffing firms
Executive search firm for product, sales and marketing leaders at growth-stage software companies.
“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
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 staffing and recruiting firms use Forager mobile numbers?
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Reach CEO, CFO and VP candidates discreetly on personal channels rather than monitored work inboxes. 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 staffing and recruiting firms?
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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 staffing and recruiting firms add mobile numbers?
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Reach candidates on the channels they actually read. 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 mobile numbers returns for your users before you build on it.
How to contact C-suite candidates discreetly?
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Use /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/ as the first step of the personal-email waterfall. Add a direct mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ for senior candidates.
What do I send, and what comes back?
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You send LinkedIn identifiers, target companies and ATS export (name, email, LinkedIn URL). You get back phone_number, personal_email, candidate shortlist and mobile, from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/, as JSON.
Can we show Forager data inside 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 mobile number is found?
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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?
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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 fill shifts fast staffing candidates?
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Select candidates from the agency pool or people_feed by role and location. Confirm the first available candidates and update the ATS.
How accurate is Forager data?
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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?
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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?
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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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