Add firmographic and hiring signals to B2B credit and underwriting models
Give a B2B lender, payments or spend-management company company-level features (age, headcount, funding, web traffic, hiring) to use next to its own risk data when it reviews a business applicant.
- Free API key
- No credit card
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What it costs: Charged per request: credit pricing.
- Company data feed
- Job postings feed
- Data feed
- Internal use
- Financial services & fintech
How the data flows
- company age
- Example Capital
- employees number
- 120
- funding rounds
- —
- domain traffic
- examplecapital.example
- name
- Jane Example
- title
- Chief Financial Officer
Steps
- Match the applicant by domain to
company_feedand readfounded_date,employees_number, addresses,funding_roundsanddomain_traffic - Add hiring activity from
job_postings_feed(active and new postings perorganization_forager_id) - Write the features to the risk model and to the reviewer's case view
- Recompute features for existing customers on each feed delivery
Inputs and outputs
| Inputs | Outputs |
|---|---|
| applicant domain | company age |
| company feed | employees_number |
| job postings feed | funding rounds |
domain_traffic | |
hiring activity |
Questions about this recipe
What company data do B2B lenders use to assess applicants?
Give a B2B lender, payments or spend-management company company-level features (age, headcount, funding, web traffic, hiring) to use next to its own risk data when it reviews a business applicant. Risk teams see whether a business is real, operating and growing before they decide, alongside their own data.
What does it cost to add firmographic and hiring signals to B2B credit and underwriting models?
Company data feed is a flat annual licence, global or regional, not priced in credits. Self-serve plans are Starter, Growth, Pro and Scale. See plans and prices
What do I need to run this recipe, and what comes back?
You send applicant domain, company feed and job postings feed. You get back company age, domain_traffic, employees_number and funding rounds, as JSON. You also need a Forager API key, which comes with a free account.
Can headcount and hiring data help business underwriting?
Give a B2B lender, payments or spend-management company company-level features (age, headcount, funding, web traffic, hiring) to use next to its own risk data when it reviews a business applicant. Risk teams see whether a business is real, operating and growing before they decide, alongside their own data.
Is there a free way to try Forager on this workflow?
Yes. Request a sample extract of the company data feed on a 30-minute call and check the fields against your own records before you license it.
When should I run this workflow?
When a business applies for credit, a card program or payment terms, or the risk team retrains its model. Risk teams see whether a business is real, operating and growing before they decide, alongside their own data.
Which Forager products does this recipe use?
Company data feed and job postings feed. Company data feed: a licensed file of 65M+ company profiles and firmographics, delivered to Snowflake or S3 on a schedule. Job postings feed: a licensed bulk feed of job postings, delivered to Snowflake or S3 for workforce and hiring-signal products.
How do I know the data is right?
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.
Which tools can run this workflow?
Delivered as a data share to Snowflake, Databricks and Amazon S3. Or call the endpoints in the steps above from your own code with one API key.
How many steps is this workflow?
4 steps: match the applicant by domain to company_feed and read founded_date, employees_number, addresses, funding_rounds and domain_traffic, add hiring activity from job_postings_feed (active and new postings per organization_forager_id), write the features to the risk model and to the reviewer's case view and recompute features for existing customers on each feed delivery.
Is there a contract or minimum commitment?
Data feeds are licensed on an annual agreement, with the term, volume and refresh schedule written into it. There are no self-serve plans for feeds.
Where does Forager data come from, and is it compliant?
Bring your legal and security questions to a call with our team, and we take you through how Forager data is sourced and the terms that cover use by teams running this workflow. Forager's privacy policy is public, and anyone can send a request about their own personal data through the consumer rights form on forager.ai.
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- $5 free credits
- No credit card
- Run your sample
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