Power a self-serve, pay-per-found contact database with a licensed people feed
Run a self-serve prospect database where SMB sellers search for free and pay only for found contacts.
- Free API key
- No credit card
- Run your sample
A selection of teams that run this job on Forager · plus other teams on Forager
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.
- People data feed
- Company data feed
- Personal emails
- Mobile numbers
- Data feed
- Data reseller
- B2B data providers
How the data flows
- revealed personal email
- jane.e@example.net
- phone number
- +1 (415) 555-0142
- name
- Jane Example
- title
- VP Revenue Operations
- work email
- jane@example.com
- company
- Example Inc.
Steps
- Load
people_feedandcompany_feedinto the search index - Expose filters for industry, size, title and location
- On reveal, call
/personal_emails/and/phone_numbers/and charge credits only when found - Refresh the index on each feed delivery
Inputs and outputs
| Inputs | Outputs |
|---|---|
| people + company feed | prospect list |
| user search filters | revealed personal_email |
phone_number |
Questions about this recipe
How do self-serve B2B contact databases source their data?
Load people_feed and company_feed into the search index. Expose filters for industry, size, title and location.
What does it cost to power a self-serve, pay-per-found contact database with a licensed people feed?
Personal emails: 5 credits per personal email found, and a personal 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 or 1,650 emails, 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 people + company feed and user search filters. You get back phone_number, prospect list and revealed personal_email, as JSON. You also need a Forager API key, which comes with a free account.
Can I build my own B2B contact database by licensing a people data feed?
Run a self-serve prospect database where SMB sellers search for free and pay only for found contacts. SMB sellers build targeted lists and pay only for found contacts.
Is there a free way to try Forager on this workflow?
Yes. Request a sample extract of the people 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 self-serve data vendor wants broader search coverage without building its own crawl. SMB sellers build targeted lists and pay only for found contacts.
Which Forager products does this recipe use?
People data feed, company data feed, personal emails and mobile numbers. People data feed: a licensed file of 800M+ professional profiles, refreshed on a schedule and delivered to Snowflake or S3. Company data feed: a licensed file of 65M+ company profiles and firmographics, delivered to Snowflake or S3 on a schedule.
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 build a B2B contact database product?
Load people_feed and company_feed into the search index. Expose filters for industry, size, title and location.
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 Google BigQuery, 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: load people_feed and company_feed into the search index, expose filters for industry, size, title and location, on reveal, call /personal_emails/ and /phone_numbers/ and charge credits only when found and refresh the index on each feed delivery.
Is there a contract or minimum commitment?
No contract to start: 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 teams on ForagerA 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
Selected use case: Forager data behind its PeopleGPT search and sourcing agents.
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Nooks - Power & parallel dialers
Selected use case: mobile numbers inside their dialer.
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Andela
- Customer
Selected use case: Forager data for the go-to-market team at a global talent marketplace.
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Amplemarket
- AI SDRs
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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Airscale
- Waterfall enrichment
Selected use case: a Forager step in its mobile number waterfall.
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SeekOut
- Talent intelligence
Selected use case: Forager’s people data feed, used to keep candidate profiles current.
2–3 years on the Forager people data feed, by SeekOut’s own account1
Sources
1 SeekOut: SeekOut, customer interview, Sep 2026.
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