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Work email API for enrichment waterfalls

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What waterfall enrichment need from work emails, what Forager returns, and how teams like yours test it.

5 recipes use work emails for multi-vendor enrichment/waterfall products.

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

A selection of waterfall enrichment platforms using Forager for work emails · plus other sales-tech platforms

  • Clay
  • Juicebox
  • Nooks
  • Deepline
  • Popl
  • HubSpot
  • Airscale
  • 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

Embed a validated email and mobile waterfall inside a SaaS product

When to use it: A SaaS product team decides to offer contact enrichment to its users.

Show the steps
  1. Call the embedded waterfall from the product's backend with linkedin_public_identifier or name + domain
  2. Use /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ and /phone_numbers/ as steps with validation
  3. Store results with provider and timestamp; bill users per valid result
  4. Monitor valid-result rate per provider and re-order steps
InputsOutputs
LinkedIn URLwork_email
name + company domainphone_number
validation status
Open the recipe: Embed a validated email and mobile waterfall inside a SaaS product
Lead recipe 3

Revive a dead CRM with a one-time contact refresh

When to use it: A team inherits a large CRM where most contacts have left or never had phones.

Show the steps
  1. Export accounts and contacts; verify current role with POST /person_detail_lookup/
  2. Replace leavers with current personas via POST /person_role_search/ (organization_domains, role_title)
  3. Fill work_email and mobile via contact endpoints
  4. Write back with refreshed_at and route revived accounts to reps
InputsOutputs
CRM exportrole_is_current flag
persona definitionsreplacement contacts
work_email
phone_number
Open the recipe: Revive a dead CRM with a one-time contact refresh
Fields

Fields you get back

  • person name
  • public profile identifier
  • role_title
  • organization domain
  • employees
  • work_email
  • phone_number
  • validation status
  • role_is_current flag
  • replacement contacts

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

Who owns this

Who evaluates work emails 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 work 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.

  • Deepline
    • Waterfall enrichment

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

    19 typed Forager tools available inside Deepline1

  • 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.

  • Airscale
    • Waterfall enrichment

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

“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 work 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 enrichment waterfalls use Forager work emails?

Identify the person, employer and work email behind a gmail or outlook sign-up or form fill so it can be scored and routed. Verified work email addresses for a person at their current employer. This page walks through 3 workflows with the exact steps.

What do work emails cost for enrichment waterfalls?

Work emails: 5 credits per work email found, and a work email lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits. That is $0.07 per work 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 enrichment waterfalls add work emails?

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 work emails 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 do I send, and what comes back?

You send persona titles, LinkedIn URL and account domain. You get back work_email, phone_number, role_title and person name, from POST /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/, 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 work email is found?

No. A work email lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits, so you pay for work emails 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 can I add contact enrichment to my SaaS product without managing many vendors?

Call the embedded waterfall from the product's backend with linkedin_public_identifier or name + domain. Use /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ and /phone_numbers/ as steps with validation.

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.

How is a work email finder different from guessing the email pattern?

A pattern guess (first.last@company.com) gives you an address that may not exist or may belong to someone who left. A work email lookup returns the address for that person at their current employer, and with Forager a work email lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits.

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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