Armature
Operational
Architecture
for Growth
Strategic advisory for investment firms building operational platforms that drive enterprise value — not just support the front office.
Eric Konigsberg
I founded Armature after more than 20 years building and overseeing operational platforms across hedge funds, private wealth, family offices, and private markets.
Most recently, I served as Chief Operating Officer of Rockefeller Asset Management, where I led the firm's operational infrastructure across investment operations, technology, and risk. Before that, I was Deputy Chief Investment Officer at Fiera Capital, where I oversaw front-office technology, FX hedging, investment risk management, and co-led the buildout of their U.S. Private Wealth operating model.
I started my career as a database and application developer, which gave me a technologist's instinct for how systems should work — and a permanent intolerance for manual workarounds that mask architectural debt.
I publish a weekly series, The COO's Perspective, and a companion newsletter, The Institutional Architect, where I share the diagnostic frameworks and architectural blueprints I use in my advisory work.
Built for Firms That Manage Money
We work across the investment management landscape. The operational challenges differ by firm type, but the underlying problem is the same: infrastructure that was built for a smaller, simpler business.
Alternative Asset Managers
Hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real estate, and venture capital. Your fund structures are complex, your documents are bespoke, and your back office is processing things that standard systems weren't designed for.
Private Wealth & Family Offices
You manage highly personalized portfolios across multiple generations, entities, and trusts. Every new relationship adds operational complexity, and your team is stretched between delivering white-glove service and keeping the back office running.
Traditional Asset Managers
Long-only equity, fixed income, balanced strategies. Your business model depends on efficiency at scale. As AUM grows, the operational infrastructure needs to absorb more volume, more regulatory requirements, and more client reporting — without the cost base growing at the same rate.
From Diagnosis to Architecture
Structured engagements that start with data, not opinions. Every model meets firms where they are — from initial assessment through full platform transformation.
Platform Diagnostic
A structured assessment of your operational platform scored across 10 pillars of institutional maturity. Includes stakeholder interviews, workflow mapping, shadow system identification, and a prioritized remediation roadmap.
Fractional Operational Architect
Embedded, part-time operational leadership to design and execute your platform transformation. Strategic oversight across vendor architecture, compliance integration, and the shift from batch to real-time processing.
Where We Work
Hands-on experience across the operational domains that most directly impact a firm's ability to grow.
Trade Settlement & Post-Trade Operations
Making sure trades confirm, match, and settle on time — every day, without late-night scrambles or manual intervention.
Technology Selection & Vendor Integration
Choosing the right systems — order management, execution, accounting, reporting — and making sure they actually talk to each other.
Compliance & Investment Mandate Enforcement
Translating client guidelines and legal requirements into automated rules so your systems catch violations before they happen, not after.
Data Integrity & Reporting
Making sure the numbers in your reports can be traced back to a single, verified source — and that your team isn't maintaining side spreadsheets to stay afloat.
Error Detection & Resolution
Finding problems while there's still time to fix them cheaply, instead of discovering them the next morning when the options are expensive.
Client Onboarding & Account Setup
Turning the new-client process from a weeks-long paperwork exercise into a streamlined workflow that gets it right the first time.
AI Strategy & Implementation
Figuring out where AI actually helps your operations and where it doesn't — then building it in with the right oversight so your team trusts the output.
Operational Risk & Governance
Identifying the single points of failure in your operations — the key-person dependencies, the undocumented processes — and building systems that don't break when someone leaves.
Scaling Without Adding Headcount
Designing your platform so you can take on more clients, more entities, and more complexity without proportionally growing your team.
Advisory Engagement Overview
A one-page overview of our engagement models, deliverables, and process — designed to share with your team or Board.
Research & Perspectives
Original analysis on operational architecture, platform resilience, and the evolving role of the COO.
The Double Disappearance
How remote work and AI removed the two things that build professional judgment at exactly the same time — and what leaders owe the next generation now.
The Platform Diagnostic
We developed a 10-point scoring framework that evaluates operational maturity across the domains that matter most: settlement velocity, data integrity, compliance automation, exception management, AI readiness, and more.
The result is an objective, defensible picture of where your platform stands — and a clear map of what to fix, in what order.
The Institutional Architect
Strategic perspectives on operational excellence. Diagnostic frameworks, industry benchmarks, and architectural blueprints for COOs navigating the shift from manual heroics to intelligence architecture.
New volumes released monthly. Weekly briefings on LinkedIn.