About
Momentum is built, not found.
Upper Momentum exists because most organizations don't have an AI problem — they have a velocity problem. Strategy decks pile up while nothing ships. We're the firm that converts intent into motion: honest assessments, senior counsel, and governance that accelerates instead of slows.
Conviction
Velocity beats mass
Every organization has mass — data, talent, ambition. Almost none have velocity. The winners of the AI era won't be the biggest or even the first; they'll be the ones who make deliberate motion a habit. That's the momentum in our name, and it's the only metric we really care about.
Practice
Senior on purpose
No leverage pyramid, no juniors learning on your budget, no 200-page decks nobody reads. The people in the room are the people doing the work — and they've done it before, at enterprise scale, where trust was non-negotiable.
Promise
Built to leave
We measure success by how little you need us in a year. Every engagement is designed to transfer capability, not create dependence — your teams end up faster, more fluent, and more confident without us in the room.
The person behind the practice
Chris Tarabochia
Upper Momentum is the practice of Chris Tarabochia — a patented inventor and enterprise technology executive who has spent 20+ years where strategy meets shipping: building products used by millions, standing up AI strategy and governance at scale, and helping leaders make confident decisions about what comes next.
Builder
Product at scale
Chris spent his early career shipping software used by millions — leading product on one of the world's most-recognized consumer technology platforms and co-inventing a patented approach to intelligent document search. He learned early that technology only matters when real people adopt it.
Leader
Enterprise AI & governance
He went on to hold a first-of-its-kind executive role setting AI strategy and governance for a large, complex public-serving enterprise — responsible for adopting AI in ways that build trust, protect people, and deliver measurable value.
Voice
Speaker & educator
Chris is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist on AI adoption, governance, and the future of work — including symposium keynotes and fireside conversations alongside the industry's most recognized AI leaders. His talks are known for making AI concrete, honest, and actionable.
Years turning emerging technology into shipped products
Of users reached by platforms our practice has built
First-of-its-kind enterprise AI executive mandate
U.S. patent in intelligent search
“The organizations that win with AI won't be the ones that moved first. They'll be the ones that moved deliberately — and kept moving.”
— Chris Tarabochia, Founder & Principal