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Score accounts on department headcount growth

Rank target accounts by how fast the team a seller sells into (for example security, data or sales) is growing, measured from people's current roles rather than job ads.

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What it costs: Charged per request: credit pricing.

How the data flows

3 inputs → People data feed + Company data feed → 3 fields sample data
01 · Inputs
Company
Example Inc.
Title
VP Revenue Operations
people feed
people-feed-2026-10-01.jsonl
02 · Forager
People data feed + Company data feed
Match found
03 · Outputs
Kim ExemplarVP Revenue Operations · Example Inc.
department headcount
120
growth score
0.96
name
Kim Exemplar
title
VP Revenue Operations
mobile
+1 (416) 555-0186
work email
kim@example.com
3 fields in the responseexample data

Steps

  1. Count current roles per company and department from people_feed (role_title, forager_organization_id, start_date, end_date)
  2. Compute department headcount growth over the last 6 and 12 months
  3. Join company_feed for size and industry so growth is compared within peers
  4. Write a department-growth score to each account and trigger plays above a threshold

Inputs and outputs

InputsOutputs
target account listdepartment headcount
department title keywords6 and 12 month growth
people feedgrowth score

Questions about this recipe

How do I find accounts where a specific team is growing?

Count current roles per company and department from people_feed (role_title, forager_organization_id, start_date, end_date). Compute department headcount growth over the last 6 and 12 months.

What does it cost to score accounts on department headcount growth?

People data feed is a flat annual licence, global or regional, not priced in credits. 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 department title keywords, people feed and target account list. You get back 6 and 12 month growth, department headcount and growth score, as JSON. You also need a Forager API key, which comes with a free account.

Can people data show department headcount growth?

Rank target accounts by how fast the team a seller sells into (for example security, data or sales) is growing, measured from people's current roles rather than job ads. Reps prioritise accounts where the buying team is actually growing, a signal job postings alone can miss.

Can teams running this workflow see a sample of the people data feed before licensing it?

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 monthly account-scoring run, or a customer defines the department their product sells to. Reps prioritise accounts where the buying team is actually growing, a signal job postings alone can miss.

Which Forager products does this recipe use?

People data feed and company data feed. 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 accurate is Forager data?

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.

Which tools can run this workflow?

Delivered as a data share to Snowflake, Databricks and Amazon S3. Or call the endpoints in the steps above from your own code with one API key.

How many steps is this workflow?

4 steps: count current roles per company and department from people_feed (role_title, forager_organization_id, start_date, end_date), compute department headcount growth over the last 6 and 12 months, join company_feed for size and industry so growth is compared within peers and write a department-growth score to each account and trigger plays above a threshold.

Is there a contract or minimum commitment?

Data feeds are licensed on an annual agreement, with the term, volume and refresh schedule written into it. There are no self-serve plans for feeds.

Can our users see Forager data in our product?

Yes, under platform terms. Self-serve plans cover internal use by your own team. Showing Forager data to your users, or passing records on, is licensed separately: talk to sales about volume and which fields your users need to see.

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