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Sales-tech & GTM platforms · Multi-vendor enrichment/waterfall products

Reverse email lookup API for enrichment waterfalls

Know who is behind the email.

What waterfall enrichment need from reverse email lookup, what Forager returns, and how teams like yours test it.

3 recipes use reverse email lookup for multi-vendor enrichment/waterfall products.

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

A selection of waterfall enrichment platforms using Forager for reverse email lookup · plus other sales-tech platforms

  • Clay
  • Deepline
  • Nooks
  • Airscale
  • Popl
  • HubSpot
  • Amplemarket
  • BetterContact
For multi-vendor enrichment/waterfall products
The job
Identify the person, employer and work email behind a gmail or outlook sign-up or form fill so it can be scored and routed.
When
A free trial sign-up or form fill arrives with a personal email address.
Outcome
Inbound teams act on sign-ups that would otherwise stay anonymous and route personal-email form fills to the right owner.
Lead recipe 1

Convert personal-email sign-ups into work identities

When to use it: A free trial sign-up or form fill arrives with a personal email address.

  1. Send the personal email to POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/
  2. Read current role_title and organization from the returned profile
  3. Enrich the employer with POST /organization_search/ (domains) for employees, industry, funding
  4. Get the work email from /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/
  5. Upsert to CRM and route by the platform's scoring rules
InputsOutputs
personal email (gmail/outlook/yahoo)person name
public profile identifier
role_title
organization domain
employees
work_email
Lead recipe 2

Enrich and route inbound demo requests in real time

When to use it: A demo request or contact-us form is submitted with only name and email.

Show the steps
  1. Resolve the submitted email with POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/
  2. Enrich the company with POST /organization_search/ (domains) and apply routing rules
  3. Add a direct mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/
  4. Create the lead in CRM and alert the owning rep with a click-to-call link
InputsOutputs
form emailrole_title
nameorganization employees/industry
company field (optional)phone_number
routed owner
Open the recipe: Enrich and route inbound demo requests in real time
Lead recipe 3

Enrich scanned event badges into CRM-ready leads

When to use it: A rep scans a badge or card at a trade show, or an event lead list ages without follow-up.

Show the steps
  1. Capture name, company and email from the scan or card
  2. Resolve with POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/ or POST /person_role_search/ (person_name, organization_domains)
  3. Fill work_email and mobile via contact endpoints
  4. Sync to CRM tagged with the event and trigger same-day follow-up
  5. Periodically bulk-refresh older event lists for job changes
InputsOutputs
badge scan / business card fieldsrole_title
event nameorganization
work_email
phone_number
event tag
Open the recipe: Enrich scanned event badges into CRM-ready leads
Fields

Fields you get back

  • person name
  • public profile identifier
  • role_title
  • organization domain
  • employees
  • work_email
  • organization employees/industry
  • phone_number
  • routed owner
  • organization
  • event tag

From the workflows above. Full field reference: Reverse email lookup and the Reverse email lookup API reference.

Who owns this

Who evaluates reverse email lookup at multi-vendor enrichment/waterfall products, 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 waterfall enrichment platforms using Forager for reverse email lookup · plus other sales-tech platforms

  • Clay
    • GTM workflow builders

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

  • Deepline
    • Waterfall enrichment

    Selected use case: Forager lookups as typed tools inside enrichment waterfalls.

    19 typed Forager tools available inside Deepline1

  • Nooks
    • Power & parallel dialers

    Selected use case: mobile numbers inside their dialer.

  • Airscale
    • Waterfall enrichment

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

  • Popl
    • Waterfall enrichment

    AI event lead-capture platform with an enrichment waterfall behind its badge scanner.

  • HubSpot
    • CRM add-ons

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

  • Amplemarket
    • AI SDRs

    Selected use case: mobile numbers inside its contact waterfall.

  • BetterContact
    • Waterfall enrichment

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

Sources

1 Deepline: deepline.com/integrations/forager (public page, read 2026-10-21).

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ClayStefan K.Data Partnerships
800M+people
65M+companies
How to test it

Test reverse email lookup 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
  • Run your sample
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do enrichment waterfalls use Forager reverse email lookup?

Identify the person, employer and work email behind a gmail or outlook sign-up or form fill so it can be scored and routed. Turn an email address into a full person profile: name, title, company, location and social links. This page walks through 3 workflows with the exact steps.

What does reverse email lookup cost for enrichment waterfalls?

Reverse email lookup: 5 credits per request, charged whether or not data comes back. 1,000 reverse email lookups use 5,000 credits: about $67 of Starter credits month to month, or about $50 on Pro with yearly billing. Self-serve plans are Starter, Growth, Pro and Scale. See plans and prices

Why do enrichment waterfalls add reverse email lookup?

Fill your waterfall’s top slot without paying for dead numbers. 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 reverse email lookup returns for your users before you build on it.

How do I convert gmail signups to work email?

Send the personal email to POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/. Get the work email from /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/.

What inputs does it take and what does it return?

You send badge scan / business card fields, company field (optional) and CRM contacts with personal emails. You get back role_title, work_email, organization employees/industry and phone_number, from POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_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 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. Reverse email lookup 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.

Can enrichment waterfalls test reverse email lookup 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 enrich demo request form in real time?

Resolve the submitted email with POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/. Enrich the company with POST /organization_search/ (domains) and apply routing rules.

How accurate is Forager data?

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.

What is the difference between a reverse email lookup and an email finder?

An email finder starts from a person and returns their email. A reverse email lookup starts from an email address, such as a sign-up or an inbound lead, and returns the person behind it: name, title, company, location and social links.

Where can I use Forager reverse email lookup?

Native in Clay, 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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