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Cognitive Surplus

Notebooks, t-shirts, whiskey and wine glasses, tote bags, pens for smart people. Redmond, Oregon.

Cognitive Surplus is a Redmond, Oregon brand selling notebooks, t-shirts, whiskey and wine glasses, tote bags, pens for smart people on Shopify. Its store lists 2,269 products, mostly greeting card, sticker and flasks, priced from $6 to $100. It sells direct and wholesale and sells on Amazon. It employs 11 to 50 people and runs 12 apps from the Shopify App Store across 7 categories. It spends about $25K to $30K a month on those apps and added 3 in the last year.

The store

Products listed
2,269
Counted on the storefront
Typical price
$6 to $100
Most products fall in this range
Greeting Card201Sticker190Flasks118Art Print117Shirts109Pet Accessory94

Product types as Cognitive Surplus files them in its own catalogue.

What Cognitive Surplus runs on Shopify

12 apps from the Shopify App Store, across 7 categories.

Search, upsell & discovery4Other3Product reviews1Loyalty, store credit & gift cards1Email & SMS marketing1Subscriptions1Shipping, returns & order tracking1

Estimated app spend: about $25K to $30K a month. 3 apps added in the last year.

Seen running on the storefront:Judge.me Product Reviews App
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Counted from the Shopify App Store. A name shows only for an app our own visit to the storefront saw running, or to signed-in members. how we count.

Where Cognitive Surplus sells

Direct, cognitive-surplus.comAmazonWholesale

Competitors

  1. notebooks and sketchbooks quirky

  2. TinyMinyMo

    stationery gifts and novelties

  3. Ohh Deer

    quirky stationery gifts

  4. note! Online

    stationery, gifts, games

  5. playful gifts and stationery

  6. Omoi Life Goods

    stationery and goods

  7. stationery gifts

  8. notebooks, stickers, pens

  9. notebooks and stickers

  10. Yoobi

    notebooks and school supplies

how we pick competitors

What apps does Cognitive Surplus use on Shopify?

Cognitive Surplus runs 12 apps from the Shopify App Store across 7 categories: Search, upsell & discovery, Other, Product reviews, Loyalty, store credit & gift cards, Email & SMS marketing, Subscriptions, Shipping, returns & order tracking. Seen running on its storefront: Judge.me Product Reviews App.

Who are Cognitive Surplus's competitors?

The Shopify brands closest to Cognitive Surplus are Decomposition, TinyMinyMo, Ohh Deer, note! Online and Art of Play.

Updated 2026-10-22. Method notes and every source: how we count →