Find the owner's mobile for local SMB accounts
Let vertical SaaS reps reach the owner of a salon, restaurant or pool-service business directly instead of the front desk.
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Uses POST /person_role_search/, POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ · People search 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.
- Person enrichment
- Mobile numbers
- Personal emails
- API
- Embedded in a platform
- B2B SaaS
How the data flows
POST /person_role_search/ - phone number
- +1 (416) 555-0186
- personal email
- kim.e@example.net
- name
- Kim Exemplar
- title
- VP Revenue Operations
- work email
- kim@example.com
- company
- Example Inc.
Steps
- Resolve the owner from the business record (name + domain) with
POST /person_role_search/(role_titleowner/founder,organization_domains) - Get the owner's mobile from
POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/(Silver for maximum reach) - Add
personal_emailfrom/personal_emails/as a second channel - Load into the dialer and track decision-maker connect rate
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. Resolve the owner from the business record (name + domain) with POST # /person_role_search/ (role_title owner/founder, organization_domains) r1 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/person_role_search/", headers=HEADERS, json=body) # 2. Get the owner's mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ # (Silver for maximum reach) r2 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/", headers=HEADERS, json=body) # 3. Add personal_email from /personal_emails/ as a second channel # 4. Load into the dialer and track decision-maker connect rate
# 1. 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 # 2. 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
Run it yourself: People search API reference
- Free API key
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Inputs and outputs
| Inputs | Outputs |
|---|---|
| SMB business list (name, domain, location) | owner name |
phone_number | |
personal_email |
Questions about this recipe
How do vertical SaaS companies find small business owners' mobile numbers?
Resolve the owner from the business record (name + domain) with POST /person_role_search/ (role_title owner/founder, organization_domains). Get the owner's mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ (Silver for maximum reach).
What does it cost to find the owner's mobile for local SMB accounts?
Person enrichment: 1 credit per request, charged whether or not data comes back. Mobile numbers: 15 credits per mobile number found, and a mobile number lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits. Personal emails: 5 credits per personal email found, and a personal email lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits. Growth's 8,250 monthly credits cover 550 mobiles, 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 SMB business list (name, domain, location). You get back owner name, personal_email and phone_number, as JSON. You also need a Forager API key, which comes with a free account.
What's the best data source for reaching SMB owners rather than the front desk?
This recipe uses Forager Person enrichment, Mobile numbers and Personal emails. Person enrichment: A full professional profile for a person from a LinkedIn URL, email or phone: experience, education, skills and contact channels. Let vertical SaaS reps reach the owner of a salon, restaurant or pool-service business directly instead of the front desk.
Can I test person enrichment 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 vertical SaaS team starts outbound to local SMB owners. Vertical SaaS reps reach SMB owners directly and build outbound pipeline.
Which Forager products does this recipe use?
Person enrichment, mobile numbers and personal emails. Person enrichment: a full professional profile for a person from a LinkedIn URL, email or phone: experience, education, skills and contact channels. Mobile numbers: direct mobile numbers for a person, from a LinkedIn URL or a Forager person ID, validated before they reach you.
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 small business owner cell phone numbers?
Resolve the owner from the business record (name + domain) with POST /person_role_search/ (role_title owner/founder, organization_domains). Get the owner's mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ (Silver for maximum reach).
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?
4 steps: resolve the owner from the business record (name + domain) with POST /person_role_search/ (role_title owner/founder, organization_domains), get the owner's mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ (Silver for maximum reach), add personal_email from /personal_emails/ as a second channel and load into the dialer and track decision-maker connect rate.
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
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Selected use case: Forager data behind its PeopleGPT search and sourcing agents.
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Aydentify - Lead databases
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Amplemarket
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Selected use case: mobile numbers inside its contact waterfall.
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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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Bitscale
- GTM workflow builders
Selected use case: Forager in its contact waterfall for mobile numbers.
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Orbital - Lead databases
Selected use case: contact lookups in its enrichment waterfall, for teams selling to local businesses.
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