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Prospect finance leaders at R&D-active companies for tax-credit services

Find companies with growing R&D spend (engineering-heavy hiring) and reach their CFO or finance director.

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A selection of teams that run this job on Forager · plus other teams on Forager

  • Clay
  • Juicebox
  • Nooks
  • Amplemarket
  • Airscale
  • HubSpot
  • SeekOut
  • Orbital

Uses POST /job_search/, POST /organization_search/, POST /person_role_search/ · Job postings 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

2 inputs → People search + Company enrichment + Work emails + Mobile numbers + Job postings feed + Company data feed → 3 fields sample data
01 · Inputs
Title
Director of Growth
sector filters
linkedin.com/in/kim-exemplar
02 · Forager
People search + Company enrichment + Work emails + Mobile numbers + Job postings feed + Company data feed POST /job_search/
Match found
03 · Outputs
Kim ExemplarDirector of Growth · Example Cloud
name
Kim Exemplar
title
Director of Growth
mobile
+1 (416) 555-0186
work email
kim@examplecloud.example
company
Example Cloud
3 fields in the responseexample data

Steps

  1. Find engineering-heavy hirers via job_postings_feed or POST /job_search/ (title engineer OR scientist)
  2. Filter by size and sector with POST /organization_search/
  3. Find CFO/finance directors with POST /person_role_search/
  4. Enrich work_email and mobile and run a tax-credit eligibility campaign
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. Find engineering-heavy hirers via job_postings_feed or POST
# /job_search/ (title engineer OR scientist)
r1 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/job_search/", headers=HEADERS, json=body)

# 2. Filter by size and sector with POST /organization_search/
r2 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/organization_search/", headers=HEADERS, json=body)

# 3. Find CFO/finance directors with POST /person_role_search/
r3 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/person_role_search/", headers=HEADERS, json=body)

# 4. Enrich work_email and mobile and run a tax-credit eligibility campaign
Generated from the recipe stepsRequest fields: API reference

Run it yourself: Job postings API reference

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Inputs and outputs

InputsOutputs
R&D role keywordsR&D-active company list
sector filtersengineering openings
finance leader contacts

Questions about this recipe

How can an R&D tax credit firm find companies likely to qualify?

Find engineering-heavy hirers via job_postings_feed or POST /job_search/ (title engineer OR scientist). Enrich work_email and mobile and run a tax-credit eligibility campaign.

What does it cost to prospect finance leaders at R&D-active companies for tax-credit services?

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. Job postings 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 R&D role keywords and sector filters. You get back engineering openings, finance leader contacts and R&D-active company list, as JSON. You also need a Forager API key, which comes with a free account.

Can engineering job postings indicate R&D spend at a company?

Find companies with growing R&D spend (engineering-heavy hiring) and reach their CFO or finance director. Client companies recover R&D credits and incentives; the consultancy reaches them first.

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 company posts many engineering or R&D roles, a proxy for qualifying R&D spend. Client companies recover R&D credits and incentives; the consultancy reaches them first.

Which Forager products does this recipe use?

People search, company enrichment, work emails, mobile numbers, job postings feed and company 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 accurate is Forager data?

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 companies eligible for r&d tax credits?

Find engineering-heavy hirers via job_postings_feed or POST /job_search/ (title engineer OR scientist). Find CFO/finance directors 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: find engineering-heavy hirers via job_postings_feed or POST /job_search/ (title engineer OR scientist), filter by size and sector with POST /organization_search/, find CFO/finance directors with POST /person_role_search/ and enrich work_email and mobile and run a tax-credit eligibility campaign.

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 teams on Forager

  • 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.

  • Amplemarket
    • AI SDRs

    Selected use case: mobile numbers inside its contact waterfall.

  • Airscale
    • Waterfall enrichment

    Selected use case: a Forager step in its mobile number waterfall.

  • HubSpot
    • CRM add-ons

    Selected use case: enriching contact and company records with people, company and job-posting data.

  • 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

  • Orbital
    • Lead databases

    Selected use case: contact lookups in its enrichment waterfall, for teams selling to local businesses.

Sources

1 SeekOut: SeekOut, customer interview, Sep 2026.

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  • HubSpot
  • SeekOut