In accordance with the teaching described herein, systems and methods are provided for a communications proxy and overlay network for a plurality of customer feedback collection instruments that are configured to gather information from customers. A communications server array may be configured to communicate with a user device and one or more contact centers. An application server may be configured to communicate with the communications server array, a contact centers having associated user interfaces. An intelligent text processing and analysis module may be configured to transform an input from the user device to a modified input for use by the first contact center and second contact center to facilitate real time or delayed communications between users and agents.