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Person enrichment API for talent marketplaces

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What talent marketplaces need from person enrichment, what Forager returns, and how teams like yours test it.

1 recipe uses person enrichment for talent marketplaces and job platforms.

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

A selection of talent marketplaces using Forager for person enrichment · plus other recruiting platforms

  • Clay
  • Juicebox
  • Nooks
  • HubSpot
  • SeekOut
  • Intro
  • SBR2TH
  • Leelu
For talent marketplaces and job platforms
The job
Compare a new freelancer's or expert's claimed employers and titles with their professional profile, so the marketplace reviews mismatches before the profile goes live.
When
A freelancer or expert signs up and submits their experience.
Outcome
Clients see vetted profiles, and the review team spends its time on the sign-ups that do not match.
Lead recipe 1

Check a freelancer's claimed work history at sign-up

When to use it: A freelancer or expert signs up and submits their experience.

  1. Resolve the sign-up email with POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/
  2. If they also give a LinkedIn URL, fetch the profile with POST /person_detail_lookup/ (linkedin_public_identifier)
  3. Compare claimed employers, titles and dates with roles (organization_name, role_title, start_date, end_date)
  4. Approve matching profiles and route mismatches to a reviewer
InputsOutputs
sign-up emailmatched profile
claimed experienceroles with dates
LinkedIn URL (optional)match or mismatch flag
Related recipe

Build natural-language candidate search on a licensed people feed

When to use it: A recruiting platform builds or expands its own candidate index.

Show the steps
  1. Ingest people_feed (experience, education, skills, location) and company_feed
  2. Normalise titles and employers; embed profiles for semantic search
  3. Tag companies (stage, industry) to support 'people from companies like X' queries
  4. Refresh the index per delivery and enrich on open with POST /person_detail_lookup/
InputsOutputs
people feedsearchable candidate index
company feedsemantic match
company tags
Open the recipe: Build natural-language candidate search on a licensed people feed
Fields

Fields you get back

  • matched profile
  • roles with dates
  • match or mismatch flag
  • searchable candidate index
  • semantic match
  • company tags

From the workflows above. Full field reference: Person enrichment and the Person enrichment API reference.

Who owns this

Who evaluates person enrichment at talent marketplaces and job platforms, 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 talent marketplaces using Forager for person enrichment · plus other recruiting 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.

  • HubSpot
    • CRM add-ons

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

  • 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

  • Intro
    • AI candidate sourcing

    Selected use case: phone numbers for outreach to passive candidates.

  • SBR2TH
    • Staffing firms

    Selected use case: people and job-postings feeds loaded into its own data lake for AI search.

  • Leelu
    • AI candidate sourcing

    Team behind the Leelu AI recruiting copilot.

Sources

1 SeekOut: SeekOut, customer interview, Sep 2026.

“Forager leads in accuracy across all regions, Forager's dual strength in accuracy and volume makes it a powerhouse for sales teams that are targeting businesses around the globe.”
ClayStefan K.Data Partnerships
800M+people
65M+companies
How to test it

Test person enrichment 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.
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  • Run your sample
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do talent marketplaces use Forager person enrichment?

Compare a new freelancer's or expert's claimed employers and titles with their professional profile, so the marketplace reviews mismatches before the profile goes live. A full professional profile for a person from a LinkedIn URL, email or phone: experience, education, skills and contact channels. This page walks through 3 workflows with the exact steps.

What does person enrichment cost for talent marketplaces?

Person enrichment: 1 credit per request, charged whether or not data comes back. 1,000 person enrichments use 1,000 credits: about $13 of Starter credits month to month, or about $10 on Pro with yearly billing. Self-serve plans are Starter, Growth, Pro and Scale. See plans and prices

Why do talent marketplaces add person enrichment?

Reach talent and hiring managers without manual lookups. 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 person enrichment returns for your users before you build on it.

How can a freelance marketplace check that a sign-up's work history is real?

Resolve the sign-up email with POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/. If they also give a LinkedIn URL, fetch the profile with POST /person_detail_lookup/ (linkedin_public_identifier).

What do I send, and what comes back?

You send LinkedIn identifiers, people feed and applicant personal email. You get back personal_email, phone_number, personal email and candidate shortlist, from POST /person_detail_lookup/, 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 data 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 nothing is found?

Yes. Person enrichment is charged per request, whether or not data comes back. Only mobile and email lookups are free when nothing is found, so try your inputs on a small run before you scale.

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 former employees of a company?

Find former employees with POST /person_role_search/ (organizations, role_is_current: false). Fetch current roles with POST /person_detail_lookup/ to see where each person is now.

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.

How is person enrichment different from scraping profiles myself?

Scraping means running and repairing your own collection pipeline and deciding what to do when a page changes. Person enrichment returns a structured profile (experience, education, skills and contact channels) from one API call, from data Forager licenses and maintains.

Does Forager integrate with the tools we already use?

Native in Clay, 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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Platforms and teams that build on Forager
  • Clay
  • Juicebox
  • Nooks
  • Andela
  • HubSpot
  • SeekOut