A phone call from Santa

The idea

Every parent has reached for it: Santa's watching, you know. Talk with Santa is that, except Santa actually rings. A nice-list call praises the specific thing a child did. A quiet word is firm but kind about the thing that needs sorting, and ends with a promise written in the big book. On Christmas Eve he rings from the sleigh, in a window the parent picks.

Santa also answers his own telephone. The number is an ordinary UK landline in Burnley, and any child can ring it for a two-minute chat, once per phone each Christmas. After that, Jingle the elf picks up.

Built for little ones

• Santa only ever rings a mobile the parent has verified with a text code, so nobody can point him at a stranger.
• He never asks for a surname, an address or a school, and never promises a present.
• Never scary: no coal, no threats. If a child says something worrying, he stops the game and tells them to talk to a grown-up they trust.
• Parents are told plainly that Santa is an AI voice. The children just get Santa.

How it's built

The same real-time speech-to-speech stack that runs Arc, given a red suit and a very long list of things Santa would never say. Calls are scheduled to the minute, the parent gets the recording on their account, and Santa remembers: the wish list and any promise a child makes carry over to the next call, and to next Christmas.

Where it is now

Live since September 2026 and taking calls every day until Christmas Eve. The first call is free.