Convert personal-email sign-ups into work identities
Identify the person, employer and work email behind a gmail or outlook sign-up or form fill so it can be scored and routed.
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Uses POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/, POST /organization_search/ · Reverse email lookup API reference
What it costs: 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.
- Reverse email lookup
- Person enrichment
- Company enrichment
- Work emails
- API
- Waterfall slot
- B2B SaaS
How the data flows
POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/ - public profile identifier
- /in/kim-exemplar
- role title
- VP Revenue Operations
- organization domain
- example.com
- employees
- 120
- work email
- kim@example.com
- name
- Kim Exemplar
Steps
- Send the personal email to
POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/ - Read current
role_titleand organization from the returned profile - Enrich the employer with
POST /organization_search/(domains) for employees, industry, funding - Get the work email from
/person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ - Upsert to CRM and route by the platform's scoring rules
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. Send the personal email to POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/ r1 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/", headers=HEADERS, json=body) # 2. Read current role_title and organization from the returned profile # 3. Enrich the employer with POST /organization_search/ (domains) for # employees, industry, funding r2 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/organization_search/", headers=HEADERS, json=body) # 4. Get the work email from /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ # 5. Upsert to CRM and route by the platform's scoring rules
# 1. POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/ curl -X POST \ https://api-v2.forager.ai/api/{account_id}/datastorage/person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/ \ -H "X-API-KEY: $FORAGER_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d @request.json # 2. 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
Run it yourself: Reverse email lookup API reference
- Free API key
- No credit card
- Run your sample
Inputs and outputs
| Inputs | Outputs |
|---|---|
| personal email (gmail/outlook/yahoo) | person name |
public profile identifier | |
role_title | |
organization domain | |
employees | |
work_email |
Questions about this recipe
How can I find out which company a gmail sign-up works for?
Send the personal email to POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/. Read current role_title and organization from the returned profile.
What does it cost to convert personal-email sign-ups into work identities?
Reverse email lookup: 5 credits per request, charged whether or not data comes back. Person enrichment: 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. Growth's 8,250 monthly credits cover 1,650 emails or 8,250 person enrichments, 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 personal email (gmail/outlook/yahoo). You get back employees, organization domain, person name and public profile identifier, as JSON. You also need a Forager API key, which comes with a free account.
Is there an API that turns a personal email into a professional profile and work email?
This recipe uses Forager Reverse email lookup, Person enrichment, Company enrichment and Work emails. Reverse email lookup: Turn an email address into a full person profile: name, title, company, location and social links. Identify the person, employer and work email behind a gmail or outlook sign-up or form fill so it can be scored and routed.
Can I 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.
When should I run this workflow?
When a free trial sign-up or form fill arrives with a personal email address. Inbound teams act on sign-ups that would otherwise stay anonymous and route personal-email form fills to the right owner.
Which Forager products does this recipe use?
Reverse email lookup, person enrichment, company enrichment and work emails. Reverse email lookup: turn an email address into a full person profile: name, title, company, location and social links. Person enrichment: a full professional profile for a person from a LinkedIn URL, email or phone: experience, education, skills and contact channels.
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 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/.
Which tools can run this workflow?
Native in Clay and Zapier, partner-built in Deepline and Cargo and called through the API from Make, n8n and your own code. Or call the endpoints in the steps above from your own code with one API key.
How many steps is this workflow?
5 steps: send the personal email to POST /person_detail_reverse_lookup/by_email/, read current role_title and organization from the returned profile, enrich the employer with POST /organization_search/ (domains) for employees, industry, funding, get the work email from /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ and upsert to CRM and route by the platform's scoring rules.
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.
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- $5 free credits
- No credit card
- Run your sample
A selection of teams that run this job on Forager · plus other sales-tech platformsA selection of teams using Forager
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Clay - GTM workflow builders
Selected use case: Forager mobile numbers, emails and people data inside Clay tables.
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Juicebox - AI candidate sourcing
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Nooks - Power & parallel dialers
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Deepline - Waterfall enrichment
Selected use case: Forager lookups as typed tools inside enrichment waterfalls.
19 typed Forager tools available inside Deepline1
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Popl - Waterfall enrichment
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HubSpot - CRM add-ons
Selected use case: enriching contact and company records with people, company and job-posting data.
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BetterContact - Waterfall enrichment
Selected use case: a Forager step in its waterfall for mobile numbers.
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Freckle - GTM workflow builders
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Sources
1 Deepline: deepline.com/integrations/forager (public page, read 2026-10-21).
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