# 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

**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.

## See our People Enrichment API in action

## 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),<br>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 |