Source senior and specialist engineers for staff-augmentation placements

Let a staffing or staff-augmentation firm find senior engineers by skill, seniority and region and reach them directly on personal channels.

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Uses POST /person_role_search/, POST /person_detail_lookup/, 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.

How the data flows

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

01 · Inputs

Hiring Manager, Engineering · New York, NY

seniority

linkedin.com/in/alex-sample

regions

linkedin.com/in/alex-sample

02 · Forager

People search + Person enrichment + Personal emails + Mobile numbers POST /person_role_search/

Match found

03 · Outputs

Alex SampleHiring Manager, Engineering · Example Inc.

personal email: alex.s@example.net
phone number: +1 (212) 555-0199
name: Alex Sample
title: Hiring Manager, Engineering
work email: alex@example.com
company: Example Inc.

3 fields in the responseexample data

Steps

Search candidates by skills, title, seniority and country with POST /person_role_search/
Check tenure and previous employers with POST /person_detail_lookup/
Fetch personal_email from /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/ and a mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ (Silver for reach)
Reach out by phone or WhatsApp and log responses against the open requirement

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. Search candidates by skills, title, seniority and country with POST
# /person_role_search/
r1 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/person_role_search/", headers=HEADERS, json=body)

# 2. Check tenure and previous employers with POST /person_detail_lookup/
r2 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/person_detail_lookup/", headers=HEADERS, json=body)

# 3. Fetch personal_email from /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/ and
# a mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ (Silver for
# reach)
r3 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/", headers=HEADERS, json=body)

# 4. Reach out by phone or WhatsApp and log responses against the open
# requirement

# 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_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

# 3. 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

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Inputs and outputs

Inputs	Outputs
skills	`candidate shortlist`
seniority	`personal_email`
regions	`phone_number`

Questions about this recipe

How do staffing agencies find senior engineers with a specific skill in a given country?

Search candidates by skills, title, seniority and country with POST /person_role_search/. Check tenure and previous employers with POST /person_detail_lookup/.

What does it cost to source senior and specialist engineers for staff-augmentation placements?

People search: people search 1 credit per request and people search: role details 1 credit per request, charged whether or not data comes back. Person enrichment: 1 credit per request, charged whether or not data comes back. 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. 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 regions, seniority and skills. You get back candidate shortlist, personal_email and phone_number, as JSON. You also need a Forager API key, which comes with a free account.

What is the best way to contact scarce engineering candidates directly?

This recipe uses Forager People search, Person enrichment, Personal emails and Mobile numbers. People search: Find the people who hold a role at target companies, filtered by title, seniority, department and location. Let a staffing or staff-augmentation firm find senior engineers by skill, seniority and region and reach them directly on personal channels.

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 client asks for a scarce profile (e.g. senior Rust engineer in LATAM, structural engineer for a construction project). Staffing firms present qualified engineers to clients faster than job-board sourcing allows.

Which Forager products does this recipe use?

People search, person enrichment, personal emails and mobile numbers. People search: find the people who hold a role at target companies, filtered by title, seniority, department and location. Person enrichment: a full professional profile for a person from a LinkedIn URL, email or phone: experience, education, skills and contact channels.

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 senior engineers by skill and country?

Search candidates by skills, title, seniority and country with POST /person_role_search/. Check tenure and previous employers with POST /person_detail_lookup/.

Which tools can run this workflow?

Native in Clay and Zapier, partner-built in Deepline and Cargo and called through the API from your own code, Make and n8n. Or call the endpoints in the steps above from your own code with one API key.

How many steps is this workflow?

4 steps: search candidates by skills, title, seniority and country with POST /person_role_search/, check tenure and previous employers with POST /person_detail_lookup/, fetch personal_email from /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/ and a mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ (Silver for reach) and reach out by phone or WhatsApp and log responses against the open requirement.

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.
10x Management
- Staffing firms
Tech talent agency that connects companies with senior freelance technologists.
HubSpot
- CRM add-ons
Selected use case: enriching contact and company records with people, company and job-posting data.
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.

Source senior and specialist engineers for staff-augmentation placements

How the data flows

Steps

Inputs and outputs

Questions about this recipe

How do staffing agencies find senior engineers with a specific skill in a given country?

What does it cost to source senior and specialist engineers for staff-augmentation placements?

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

What is the best way to contact scarce engineering candidates directly?

Can I test people search for free?

When should I run this workflow?

Which Forager products does this recipe use?

How do you check data quality?

How do I find senior engineers by skill and country?

Which tools can run this workflow?

How many steps is this workflow?

Do I need a subscription?

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