Rob Stone: Why AI Governance Is Your Fastest Path to Production

AI governance isn't the thing that slows you down. It's what gives you the confidence to move fast without a blind spot. Rob Stone runs the $550 million AI and automation business at SS&C Technologies, a company that is both a commercial technology vendor and one of the largest financial services processors in the world. SS&C built an AI governance framework before deploying a single AI agent, gave it away as open source, and used it as the foundation for Work HQ, their recently launched orchestration platform. In this episode of Keep Moving Forward, Rob joins host Gemma Versace to talk about why AI governance basics matter before anything else, how to move from pilots to production at scale, and how to use a risk spectrum to decide where AI belongs in your organization right now. 📌 Topics covered: Why unsanctioned AI use is already inside your organization How SS&C built an AI governance framework and then gave it away The difference between AI agents and agentic AI How to use the risk spectrum to decide where to deploy AI first What the customer zero approach taught SS&C about building for production If you lead a technology team or are responsible for AI deployment in a regulated industry, this episode is a ground-level look at what enterprise AI governance actually requires and why starting there is what lets you go faster. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:09 - From hedge fund salesman to $550M AI business 00:05:03 - Why SS&C open-sourced its AI governance ledger 00:07:48 - What "customer zero" actually teaches you 00:10:16 - How AI governance unlocks speed 00:15:38 - AI agents vs. agentic AI 00:19:11 - Where AI belongs in production right now 00:28:40 - What keeps Rob moving forward Hire X-Team 👉 https://x-team.com/contact/ Join X-Team 👉 https://x-team.com/engineers/ Follow us on: • LinkedIn:   / x-team   • Instagram:   / xteam_community