Raise executive-search response rates with personal email and mobile

Reach CEO, CFO and VP candidates discreetly on personal channels rather than monitored work inboxes.

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

Uses POST /person_detail_lookup/, POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ · Person 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

2 inputs → Personal emails + Mobile numbers + Person enrichment → 3 fields sample data

01 · Inputs

Your list

contacts.csv · 1,200 rows

LinkedIn URL

linkedin.com/in/sam-specimen

02 · Forager

Personal emails + Mobile numbers + Person enrichment POST /person_detail_lookup/

Match found

03 · Outputs

Sam SpecimenHiring Manager, Engineering · Example Inc.

personal email: sam.s@example.net
phone number: +1 (512) 555-0133
current role: Hiring Manager, Engineering
name: Sam Specimen
work email: sam@example.com
company: Example Inc.

3 fields in the responseexample data

Steps

Build the long-list and resolve each executive with POST /person_detail_lookup/
Use /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/ as the first step of the personal-email waterfall
Add a direct mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ for senior candidates
Send discreet outreach and track delivery and response

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. Build the long-list and resolve each executive with POST
# /person_detail_lookup/
r1 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/person_detail_lookup/", headers=HEADERS, json=body)

# 2. Use /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/ as the first step of the
# personal-email waterfall

# 3. Add a direct mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/
# for senior candidates
r2 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/", headers=HEADERS, json=body)

# 4. Send discreet outreach and track delivery and response

# 1. POST /person_detail_lookup/
curl -X POST \
  https://api-v2.forager.ai/api/{account_id}/datastorage/person_detail_lookup/ \
  -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

Generated from the recipe stepsRequest fields: API reference

Run it yourself: Person enrichment API reference

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Inputs and outputs

Inputs	Outputs
executive long-list	`personal_email`
LinkedIn identifiers	`phone_number`
	`current role`

Questions about this recipe

How do executive recruiters contact senior candidates confidentially?

Build the long-list and resolve each executive with POST /person_detail_lookup/. Add a direct mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ for senior candidates.

What does it cost to raise executive-search response rates with personal email and mobile?

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. Person enrichment: 1 credit per request, charged whether or not data comes back. 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 executive long-list and LinkedIn identifiers. You get back current role, personal_email and phone_number, as JSON. You also need a Forager API key, which comes with a free account.

Which tools find personal emails for executive search?

This recipe uses Forager Personal emails, Mobile numbers and Person enrichment. Personal emails: Personal email addresses for reaching people outside their work inbox, such as passive candidates and founders. Reach CEO, CFO and VP candidates discreetly on personal channels rather than monitored work inboxes.

Can I test personal emails 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 search firm or PE talent partner opens a confidential executive search. Search firms get high delivery and response rates on confidential executive outreach.

Which Forager products does this recipe use?

Personal emails, mobile numbers and person enrichment. Personal emails: personal email addresses for reaching people outside their work inbox, such as passive candidates and founders. 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 to contact C-suite candidates discreetly?

Use /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/ as the first step of the personal-email waterfall. Add a direct mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ for senior candidates.

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: build the long-list and resolve each executive with POST /person_detail_lookup/, use /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/ as the first step of the personal-email waterfall, add a direct mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ for senior candidates and send discreet outreach and track delivery and response.

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 recruiting 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.
Velox
- Staffing firms
Technical staffing firm in the Netherlands.
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
SBR2TH
- Staffing firms
Selected use case: people and job-postings feeds loaded into its own data lake for AI search.
PrimeHammer
- Staffing firms
Software studio in Czechia.

Sources

¹ SeekOut: SeekOut, customer interview, Sep 2026.

Raise executive-search response rates with personal email and mobile

How the data flows

Steps

Inputs and outputs

Questions about this recipe

How do executive recruiters contact senior candidates confidentially?

What does it cost to raise executive-search response rates with personal email and mobile?

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

Which tools find personal emails for executive search?

Can I test personal emails for free?

When should I run this workflow?

Which Forager products does this recipe use?

How do you check data quality?

How to contact C-suite candidates discreetly?

Which tools can run this workflow?

How many steps is this workflow?

Do I need a subscription?

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