Superbowl UK
Case Study · Superbowl UK

3,500 missed calls a month. Then zero.

How Novalty deployed AI voice agents across 12 UK bowling and family entertainment venues, and captured every call that was previously lost.

Family Entertainment12 sitesLive in 1 weekLive since Jan 2026
Missed calls / month
3,5000
Every call answered
Live across all 12 sites
The results at a glance
0
calls answered / month
0
confirmed bookings / month
0
after-hours calls / month
0
sites live nationwide
Not every call is a booking. Many callers just have questions, opening hours, pricing, directions. Novalty answers all of them; the booking links go only to the callers who are ready to book.
Monthly averages from verified call data across all 12 sites, January to July 2026.
Before Novalty

A national chain losing bookings every night it was open.

Superbowl UK operates 12 venues across the country. Every Friday night and every weekend, the phones ring, families wanting to book lanes, birthday parties, group outings. But a busy venue is a loud venue, and staff on the floor can't always get to the phone.

1~3,500 calls a month were going unanswered across the 12-site estate
2Roughly 1 in 5 calls missed at peak times
3Most never even reached voicemail, the line simply rang out
4Basingstoke, the busiest site, was losing 19.7% of its calls

Even when staff did pick up, they often couldn't complete a booking on the phone, callers were told to visit the website and do it themselves. Every dropped call and every deflection to the website was a booking handed to a competitor. Before you even count the after-hours calls, the estate was leaking six figures a year.

The deployment

One week to live across all 12 sites.

Novalty built a custom AI voice agent for each site on Vapi + Twilio + Make.com, trained on every venue's hours, prices, party packages, and booking flow. No two agents are the same, because no two venues are.

01
Day 1
Discovery call with SBUK operations team, existing numbers audited
02
Day 3
Voice agents configured per site with venue-specific knowledge base
03
Day 5
Booking link SMS flow wired to venues' existing booking system
04
Day 7
Live across all 12 sites, existing phone numbers kept, staff notified
No number porting. No downtime. No new hardware.
How it works

Every call answered. Every booking captured. Every escalation clean.

Answers instantly, 24/7
Two-ring average pickup. Never a voicemail. Never a rung-out call.
Books directly via SMS
When a caller wants to book, the AI sends a personalised booking link straight to their phone mid-call, 64% take-up.
Escalates with full context
When a call needs a human, bespoke party enquiries, complaints, urgent operational calls, the AI hands off to venue staff with a full transcript summary.
Every month

The numbers don't lie.

This is what a typical month looks like across the estate, steady, repeatable impact.

Calls answered by Novalty
3,500 / month
Confirmed bookings
550 / month (from 860 links, 64% take-up)
After-hours calls captured
340 / month (previously all lost)
Average call duration
57 seconds
Missed calls since go-live
Zero
A note on the numbers: "calls answered" counts every call the AI handled, booking requests, general enquiries and questions alike. "Confirmed bookings" counts only the callers who actually completed a booking.
From 3,500 missed calls a month to zero. Every call that comes in now gets answered. Every caller gets a next step. Zero today, and zero going forward.
Full transparency

Every venue, every call. Fully transparent.

Every site, every call, nothing hidden. Here's the average monthly call volume the AI now handles across all 12 venues.

#VenueAvg / month
1Basingstoke655
2St Helens430
3Barnsley420
4Macclesfield375
5Wolverhampton320
6Widnes315
7Morfa / Swansea295
8Ipswich255
9Stafford190
10Aldershot125
11Hull78
12Norwich42
Basingstoke, the site that was previously missing 1 in 5 calls, now handles the most calls in the estate (655 a month) and sends more booking links than anywhere else, converting 71% of every link into action. The worst site became the benchmark.
The playbook

The playbook is proven. Now it can be yours.

If you run a chain, bowling, bars, restaurants, lounges, family entertainment, the pattern is always the same. The busier you are, the more calls you lose. And the calls you lose are the bookings you never knew you had.

  • Peak-time calls staff can't get to
  • After-hours calls that go to nothing
  • Booking flows that require the caller to hang up and self-serve
  • No way to know how many bookings you're losing

The fix is the same too: one AI agent per venue, live in a week, every call answered, every caller booked or handed off cleanly, and real numbers in your inbox every morning.

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