# People Enrichment API: Enrich Any Person With 90+ Live Datapoints

Find any information about a person from their contact email to their full work experience using our real-time people enrichment API.

## Choose between realtime & database enrichment

### Realtime data enrichment

### Enrichment from database

| Feature       | Realtime data enrichment      | Database enrichment           |
|---------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
| Data freshness| Data is pulled fresh from the web at the time of the request | Uses cached records from our database, updated monthly |
| Latency       | Up to 30 seconds per profile  | Under 10 seconds per profile  |
| Credits       | 5 per profile                 | 1 per profile                 |
| Use when      | You need the latest updates for use cases like verifying job changes or sending out outbound campaigns | You need fast, large-volume enrichment at scale for use cases like updating CRMs or large candidate databases |

## Work with business emails

### Enrich with business emails

Send in a verified business email and we’ll return a complete profile including job title, skills, social links, and work history.

### Reverse lookup using business emails

If all you have is a business email, use it to find out who the person is including details like their current employer, past roles, and education history.

## Available datapoints

- Identity & contact Info
  - Name
  - Social media URLs
  - Location
  - Job title & current company
  - Email
  - Professional background
  - Current employment
  - Past employment
    - Job titles, descriptions, timelines
    - Employer details
  - Academic background
    - Universities
    - Degrees
    - Fields of study
    - Durations
- Content & engagement signals
  - Posts
  - Engagement metrics
  - Reactor details

### Popular use cases

- Enrich a prospect list or candidate database with complete profile data:
  Drop in a list of names and company names or profile URLs, and get back full profiles including title, detailed work history, education, certifications, and more.

- Fill in missing fields in your candidate or prospect list:
  Use partial enrichment to update only the fields you're missing like job title, graduation year, or skills while keeping your existing data intact.

- Fetch live person data when you need it:
  Use real-time enrichment selectively for older or incomplete records or before sending out an email campaign to ensure you are acting on accurate data regarding the person.

## How does Crustdata compare to others?

| Feature           | Crustdata | Coresignal | PDL (beta) |
|-------------------|-----------|------------|------------|
| Real-time enrichment| ✅ Yes   | ❌ No     | ❌ No      |
| Social post & engagement data| ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ✅ Yes  |
| Job change webhooks| ✅ Yes  | ❌ No     | Unspecified |
| Person salary data | ❌ No  | ❌ No     | 30+       |
| Freshness         | Realtime | Monthly    | 6 hours (some datapoints), monthly (1 billion datapoints)  |

## Real-time vs database enrichment

| Feature       | Real-time enrichment           | Database enrichment        |
|---------------|------------------------------|-----------------------------|
| Data freshness| Pulled live from the web at request | Cached, updated monthly      |
| Latency       | Up to ~30 seconds per profile | Under ~10 seconds; may take up to 24h if not yet cached |
| Credits       | 5 credits per profile         | 1 credit per profile        |
| Use when      | You need the latest updates for use cases like verifying job changes or sending outbound campaigns | You need fast, large-volume enrichment at scale for use cases like updating CRMs or large candidate databases |

### See our People Enrichment API in action

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