# 10 things to build with work email and phone data.

> Ideas to build with work email and phone data, found by LinkedIn handle: sales outreach, CRM enrichment, recruiting and verified email lists.

Canonical: https://apiforagents.dev/ideas/work-email-and-phone-data · Updated 2026-10-21

Work email and phone data is good for reaching people who list their role publicly on LinkedIn: buyers, hiring managers and partners. Each idea below starts from a LinkedIn handle you found and uses one operation, reveal.

- Operations: 1
- Price: priced per call
- Free to start: $0.10
- Per call: Up to 10 people

## The ideas

- **[A sales outreach list from a people search](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/contacts/work-email-and-phone-api).** For B2B sales teams. After a LinkedIn people search for a role, it gets the work email of each person a seller will write to, one by one. Uses reveal.
- **[A CRM enrichment step](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/contacts/work-email-and-phone-api).** For revenue operations teams. It fills a missing work email on CRM records that already hold a LinkedIn URL. Uses reveal.
- **[A recruiter's contact step](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/contacts/work-email-and-phone-api).** For recruiters with a shortlist. It gets the email or phone of each candidate so the recruiter can reach them directly. Uses reveal.
- **[A checked email list before a campaign](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/contacts/work-email-and-phone-api).** For marketers. It asks for verify on each email so addresses a verifier calls invalid do not count. Uses reveal.
- **[A call list for a sales team](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/contacts/work-email-and-phone-api).** For sales teams that call. It asks for the phone only, for the few accounts worth a call. Uses reveal.
- **[A wrong number fix flow](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/contacts/work-email-and-phone-api).** For any team using the data. When a number or email turns out wrong, it asks again with tryAnotherSource for that part. Uses reveal.
- **[An event follow-up helper](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/contacts/work-email-and-phone-api).** For people who met others at a conference. It gets the work email of the people they met, from the handles they swapped. Uses reveal.
- **[A partnership outreach tool](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/contacts/work-email-and-phone-api).** For partnership managers. It gets the work email of the partnerships lead at each company on a short list. Uses reveal.
- **[An investor and founder intro helper](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/contacts/work-email-and-phone-api).** For investors and founders. It gets the email of a founder or partner found in a public profile, for a personal note. Uses reveal.
- **[A reviewed intro agent](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/contacts/work-email-and-phone-api).** For sellers using an agent. The agent finds the person, gets the email and drafts a short note that a human reads and sends. Uses reveal.

## Each idea and what it calls

| Idea | Operations | One call returns | Main operation price |
|---|---|---|---|
| A sales outreach list from a people search | reveal | Up to 10 people | reveal: quoted per call |
| A CRM enrichment step | reveal | Up to 10 people | reveal: quoted per call |
| A recruiter's contact step | reveal | Up to 10 people | reveal: quoted per call |
| A checked email list before a campaign | reveal | Up to 10 people | reveal: quoted per call |
| A call list for a sales team | reveal | Up to 10 people | reveal: quoted per call |
| A wrong number fix flow | reveal | Up to 10 people | reveal: quoted per call |
| An event follow-up helper | reveal | Up to 10 people | reveal: quoted per call |
| A partnership outreach tool | reveal | Up to 10 people | reveal: quoted per call |
| An investor and founder intro helper | reveal | Up to 10 people | reveal: quoted per call |
| A reviewed intro agent | reveal | Up to 10 people | reveal: quoted per call |

## How to start

1. Sign up. An agent registers itself with one POST and starts with $0.10 of free credit; a person can sign up on the site instead.
2. Find the people first, for example with a LinkedIn people search, and keep the /in/ handles you saw.
3. Quote the reveal for free with "estimateOnly": true, asking only for the part you need: email, phone or both.
4. Run it with "maxUsd" set. A part your account already holds is free, and a part that comes back empty is not charged.

## Operations used

- [Work Email and Phone API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/contacts/work-email-and-phone-api): quoted per call. Work email and mobile number for up to ten people, by LinkedIn /in/ handle or profile URL.

## Questions

### Where should the LinkedIn handle come from?

From evidence: a people search, a search result or a pasted profile URL. A handle guessed from a name can belong to someone else and is still charged.

### Is this for bulk mailing?

No. It is built for reaching people one by one about their work. Write to people whose public role fits what you offer, and respect their replies.

### What does a run cost?

Each call is priced by its quote. A call can carry a minimum, so send it first with "estimateOnly": true. The quote is free and is the most the call can cost.

### Can an AI agent build and run these on its own?

Yes. It signs itself up with one call and gets $0.10 free, quotes each call before it spends, and pays from a prepaid balance. "maxUsd" caps every call, and only a person can add money.

## Why API for Agents

- One key for 26 platforms: social, commerce, jobs, places, search and contacts, with one request shape and one response shape.
- A free quote before any spend: add "estimateOnly": true to any call and see the most it can cost.
- Pay per record in US dollars. No subscription, nothing expires, top-ups from $5.
- $0.10 free to try, no card. An AI agent can sign itself up in one request; a person claims it later.
- Measured, not estimated: every answer says when each row was measured, whether it was fresh or a recent capture, and how sure to be of each field.
- Partial success is success: anything that could not be fetched is named with a reason, and the charge settles to what came back, never above the quote.
- Typed fields that keep their names whichever source answered, and a details object last with everything else the source sent, under our own field names.
- Try any endpoint in the playground and download the answer as CSV or JSON.

## Start

The playground runs any endpoint by hand: pick a platform and what you want from it, fill a short form named in plain words (or press Use sample input), see the free quote on the Run button, run it, then read the answer as a table or JSON and download it as CSV or JSON. The same call is written out as cURL, Python and Node while you type. Open it at https://apiforagents.dev/dashboard/run (sign in first).

Agents register at https://apiforagents.dev/auth.md (one POST, $0.10 free). People: https://apiforagents.dev/docs#start. Prices: https://apiforagents.dev/pricing.md