Connect ingredient and packaging suppliers with brand-side product developers

Let a vertical supplier-to-brand database (or a supplier itself) attach R&D, formulation, sourcing and procurement contacts to every consumer brand it lists.

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Uses POST /organization_search/, POST /person_role_search/, POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ · Company enrichment API reference

What it costs: 15 credits per mobile found · 5 credits per email found. A mobile or email lookup that returns nothing costs 0 credits. Enrichment and search are charged per request: credit pricing.

How the data flows

3 inputs → People search + Company enrichment + Work emails + Mobile numbers + People data feed → 4 fields sample data

01 · Inputs

Your list

contacts.csv · 1,200 rows

product category

linkedin.com/in/sam-specimen

countries

linkedin.com/in/sam-specimen

02 · Forager

People search + Company enrichment + Work emails + Mobile numbers + People data feed POST /organization_search/

Match found

03 · Outputs

Sam SpecimenVP Revenue Operations · Example Inc.

role title: VP Revenue Operations
work email: sam@example.com
phone number: +1 (512) 555-0133
name: Sam Specimen
company: Example Inc.

4 fields in the responseexample data

Steps

Match listed brands to companies with POST /organization_search/
Find R&D, product development, formulation and procurement leads with POST /person_role_search/
Fetch work_email from /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ and Gold mobiles via POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/
Expand to new countries by ingesting people_feed for brands outside the home market

import json, os, requests

BASE = "https://api-v2.forager.ai/api/{account_id}/datastorage"
HEADERS = {"X-API-KEY": os.environ["FORAGER_KEY"]}
body = json.load(open("request.json"))  # request fields: see the API reference

# 1. Match listed brands to companies with POST /organization_search/
r1 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/organization_search/", headers=HEADERS, json=body)

# 2. Find R&D, product development, formulation and procurement leads with
# POST /person_role_search/
r2 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/person_role_search/", headers=HEADERS, json=body)

# 3. Fetch work_email from /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ and Gold
# mobiles via POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/
r3 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/", headers=HEADERS, json=body)

# 4. Expand to new countries by ingesting people_feed for brands outside the
# home market

# 1. POST /organization_search/
curl -X POST \
  https://api-v2.forager.ai/api/{account_id}/datastorage/organization_search/ \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $FORAGER_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @request.json

# 2. POST /person_role_search/
curl -X POST \
  https://api-v2.forager.ai/api/{account_id}/datastorage/person_role_search/ \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $FORAGER_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @request.json

# 3. POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/
curl -X POST \
  https://api-v2.forager.ai/api/{account_id}/datastorage/person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $FORAGER_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @request.json

Generated from the recipe stepsRequest fields: API reference

Run it yourself: Company enrichment API reference

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Inputs and outputs

Inputs	Outputs
brand list	`brand contact`
product category	`role_title`
countries	`work_email`
	`phone_number`

Questions about this recipe

How can an ingredient supplier find R&D and formulation leads at consumer brands?

Match listed brands to companies with POST /organization_search/. Find R&D, product development, formulation and procurement leads with POST /person_role_search/.

What does it cost to connect ingredient and packaging suppliers with brand-side product developers?

People search: people search 1 credit per request and people search: role details 1 credit per request, charged whether or not data comes back. Company enrichment: 1 credit per request, charged whether or not data comes back. Work emails: 5 credits per work email found, and a work email lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits. Mobile numbers: 15 credits per mobile number found, and a mobile number lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits. People data feed is a flat annual licence, global or regional, not priced in credits. Growth's 8,250 monthly credits cover 550 mobiles, 1,650 emails or 8,250 search requests, or a mix. 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 brand list, countries and product category. You get back brand contact, phone_number, role_title and work_email, as JSON. You also need a Forager API key, which comes with a free account.

Where do CPG suppliers get contacts for brand-side product developers?

Let a vertical supplier-to-brand database (or a supplier itself) attach R&D, formulation, sourcing and procurement contacts to every consumer brand it lists. Suppliers reach the product developer choosing ingredients and packaging, not a general inbox.

Can I test people search 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.

When should I run this workflow?

When a supplier searches the database for brands launching products in its category, or a brand list is exported for outreach. Suppliers reach the product developer choosing ingredients and packaging, not a general inbox.

Which Forager products does this recipe use?

People search, company enrichment, work emails, mobile numbers and people data feed. People search: find the people who hold a role at target companies, filtered by title, seniority, department and location. Company enrichment: firmographics for a company from its domain or name: industry, headcount, locations, growth and open roles.

How do you check data quality?

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 do I find product developers at cpg brands?

Match listed brands to companies with POST /organization_search/. Find R&D, product development, formulation and procurement leads with POST /person_role_search/.

Which tools can run this workflow?

Native in Clay and Zapier, partner-built in Deepline and Cargo, delivered as a data share to Snowflake, Databricks and Amazon S3 and called through the API from your own code, Make, n8n and Google BigQuery. 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 listed brands to companies with POST /organization_search/, find R&D, product development, formulation and procurement leads with POST /person_role_search/, fetch work_email from /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ and Gold mobiles via POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ and expand to new countries by ingesting people_feed for brands outside the home market.

Do I need a subscription?

Not to test: a free account comes with $5 in credits. To keep using Forager, choose a monthly or yearly plan. Monthly plans cancel anytime and unused credits roll over; yearly plans grant all credits upfront and cost 10% less. Larger volumes are agreed with our team.

A selection of teams that run this job on Forager · 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.
Aydentify
- Lead databases
Lead-discovery tool that shows ingredient and packaging suppliers which consumer brands use their products.
Amplemarket
- AI SDRs
Selected use case: mobile numbers inside its contact waterfall.
HubSpot
- CRM add-ons
Selected use case: enriching contact and company records with people, company and job-posting data.
Bitscale
- GTM workflow builders
Selected use case: Forager in its contact waterfall for mobile numbers.
Orbital
- Lead databases
Selected use case: contact lookups in its enrichment waterfall, for teams selling to local businesses.

Connect ingredient and packaging suppliers with brand-side product developers

How the data flows

Steps

Inputs and outputs

Questions about this recipe

How can an ingredient supplier find R&D and formulation leads at consumer brands?

What does it cost to connect ingredient and packaging suppliers with brand-side product developers?

What do I need to run this recipe, and what comes back?

Where do CPG suppliers get contacts for brand-side product developers?

Can I test people search for free?

When should I run this workflow?

Which Forager products does this recipe use?

How do you check data quality?

How do I find product developers at cpg brands?

Which tools can run this workflow?

How many steps is this workflow?

Do I need a subscription?

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