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                                                                    EXHIBIT 3(i)


                            ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                               INTELLIREADY, INC.


         The undersigned Incorporator, being a natural person of the age of
eighteen (18) years or more and desiring to form a body corporate under the laws
of the State of Colorado, does hereby sign, verify and deliver in duplicate to
the Secretary of State of the State of Colorado these Articles of Incorporation:



                                    ARTICLE I
                                      NAME

         The name of the Corporation is: IntelliReady, Inc.


                                   ARTICLE II
                               PERIOD OF DURATION

         This Corporation shall exist in perpetuity, from and after the date of
filing these Articles of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State
of Colorado unless dissolved according to law.

                                   ARTICLE III
                                CAPITAL STRUCTURE

         Section 1. Authorized Capital. The Corporation is authorized to issue
two classes of stock to be designated, respectively, Preferred Stock ("Preferred
Stock") and Common Stock ("Common Stock"). The total number of shares of capital
stock that the Corporation shall have authority to issue is eighty million
(80,000,000). The total number of shares of Preferred Stock the Corporation
shall have authority to issue is fifteen million (15,000,000). The total number
of shares of Common Stock the Corporation shall have authority to issue is
sixty-five million (65,000,000). The Preferred Stock shall have no par value and
the Common Stock shall have no par value.

         Section 2. Preferred Stock. The Corporation, by resolution of its Board
of Directors, may divide and issue the Preferred Stock in series. Preferred
Stock of each series when issued shall be designated to distinguish them from
the shares of all other series. The Board of Directors is hereby expressly
vested with the authority to divide the class of Preferred Stock into series and
to fix and determine the relative rights and preferences of the shares of any
such series so established to the full extent permitted by these Articles of
Incorporation and the Colorado Business Corporation Act in respect to the
following:

         1.       The number of shares to constitute such series, and the
                  distinctive designations thereof;

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                  (a)      The rate and preference of dividends, if any, the
                           time of payment of dividends, whether dividends are
                           cumulative and the date from which any dividend shall
                           accrue;

                  (b)      Whether shares may be redeemed and, if so, the
                           redemption price and the terms and conditions of
                           redemption;

                  (c)      The amount payable upon shares in event of
                           involuntary liquidation;

                  (d)      The amount payable upon shares in event of voluntary
                           liquidation;

                  (e)      Sinking fund or other provisions, if any, for the
                           redemption or purchase of shares;

                  (f)      The terms and conditions on which shares may be
                           converted, if the shares of any series are issued
                           with the privilege of conversion;

                  (g)      Voting powers, if any; and

                  (h)      Any other relative rights and preferences of shares
                           of such series, including, without limitation, any
                           restriction on an increase in the number of shares of
                           any series theretofore authorized and any limitation
                           or restriction of rights or powers to which shares of
                           any future series shall be subject.

         Section 3. Common Stock. The holders of the Common Stock shall be
entitled to one vote for each share of Common Stock held by them of record at
the time for determining the holders thereof entitled to vote.

         The rights of holders of Common Stock to receive dividends or share in
the distribution of assets in the event of liquidation, dissolution or winding
up of the affairs of the Corporation shall be subject to the preferences,
limitations and relative rights of the Preferred Stock fixed in the resolution
or resolutions which may be adopted from time to time by the Board of Directors
of the Corporation providing for the issuances of one or more series of the
Preferred Stock.

         Section 4. Assessment and Consideration. The capital stock, after the
amount of the subscription price has been paid in, shall not be subject to
assessment to pay the debts of the Corporation.

         Any stock of the Corporation may be issued for money, property,
services rendered, labor done, cash advances for the Corporation, or for any
other assets of value in accordance with the action of the Board of Directors,
whose judgment as to value received in return therefor shall be conclusive and,
upon the receipt of said consideration, when issued shall be fully paid and
nonassessable shares.



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                                   ARTICLE IV
                                OFFICES AND AGENT

         Section 1. Initial Registered Office and Initial Registered Agent. The
address of the Corporation's initial registered office and the name of its
initial registered agent at that office are: Scott B. Campbell, 1390 S. Potomac,
Suite 136, Aurora, Colorado 80012.

         Section 2. Initial Principal Office. The address of the Corporation's
initial principal office is: 1390 S. Potomac, Suite 136, Aurora, Colorado 80012.


                                    ARTICLE V
                                    PURPOSES

         The purposes for which the Corporation are organized are as follows:

         (a) To engage in all lawful business; and

         (b) To have, enjoy and exercise all of the rights, powers and
         privileges conferred upon corporations incorporated pursuant to
         Colorado law, whether now or hereafter in effect and whether or not
         herein specifically mentioned.

         The foregoing enumeration of purposes and powers shall not limit or
restrict in any manner the transaction of other business, the pursuit of other
purposes, or the exercise of other and further rights and powers that may now or
hereafter be permitted or provided by law.


                                   ARTICLE VI
                        QUORUM FOR SHAREHOLDERS' MEETINGS

         Unless otherwise provided in the bylaws, one-third of the outstanding
shares shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of shareholders.


                                   ARTICLE VII
                               BOARD OF DIRECTORS

         The corporate powers shall be exercised by or under the authority of,
and the business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed under the
direction of, a Board of Directors.

         The number of directors shall be fixed in accordance with the bylaws.


                                  ARTICLE VIII
                                CUMULATIVE VOTING

         Cumulative voting shall not be permitted in the election of directors.



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                                   ARTICLE IX
                                PREEMPTIVE RIGHTS

         No holder of any shares of the Corporation, whether now or hereafter
authorized, shall have any preemptive or preferential right to acquire any
unissued shares or securities of the Corporation, including shares or securities
held in the treasury of the Corporation or securities convertible into shares or
carrying stock purchase warrants or privileges.


                                    ARTICLE X
                        LIMITATION ON DIRECTOR LIABILITY

         A director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the
Corporation or to its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary
duty as a director; except that this provision shall not eliminate or limit the
liability of a director to the Corporation or to its shareholders for monetary
damages otherwise existing for (i) any breach of the director's duty of loyalty
to the Corporation or to its shareholders; (ii) acts or omissions not in good
faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;
(iii) acts specified in Section 7-108-403 of the Colorado Business Corporation
Act; or (iv) any transaction from which the director directly or indirectly
derived any improper personal benefit. If the Colorado Business Corporation Act
is hereafter amended to eliminate or limit further the liability of a director,
then, in addition to the elimination and limitation of liability provided by the
preceding sentence, the liability of each director shall be eliminated or
limited to the fullest extent permitted by the Colorado Business Corporation Act
as so amended. Any repeal or modification of this Article X shall not adversely
affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation under this
Article X, as in effect immediately prior to such repeal or modification, with
respect to any liability that would have accrued, but for this Article X, prior
to such repeal or modification.


                                   ARTICLE XI
                                 INDEMNIFICATION

         The Corporation shall indemnify, to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law in effect from time to time, any person, and the estate and
personal representative of any such person, against all liability and expense
(including attorneys' fees and costs of litigation) incurred by reason of the
fact that he is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or, while
serving as a director or officer of the Corporation, he is or was serving at the
request of the Corporation as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee,
fiduciary, or agent of, or in any similar managerial or fiduciary position of,
another domestic or foreign corporation or other individual or entity or of an
employee benefit plan.

         The Corporation shall also indemnify any person who is serving or has
served the Corporation as director, officer, employee, fiduciary, or agent, and
that person's estate and personal representative, to the extent and in the
manner provided in any bylaw, resolution of the shareholders or directors,
contract, or otherwise, so long as such provision is legally permissible.


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                                   ARTICLE XII
                              INTERESTED CONTRACTS

         No contract or transaction between the Corporation and one or more of
its directors or officers, or between the Corporation and any other corporation,
firm association, or entity in which one or more of its directors are directors
or officers or are financially interested, shall be void or voidable solely for
this reason, or solely because such directors are present at the meeting of the
Board of Directors or a committee thereof which authorizes, approves or ratifies
such contract or transactions or solely because their votes are counted for such
purpose if (i) the material facts of such relationship or interest and as to the
contract or transaction are disclosed or known to the Board of Directors or
committee, and the Board of Directors or the committee in good faith authorizes
the contract or transaction by the affirmative votes of a majority of the
disinterested directors, even through the disinterested directors be less than a
quorum; or (ii) the material facts of such relationship or interest and as to
the contract or transaction are disclosed or known to the shareholders entitled
to vote, and the contract or transaction is specifically approved in good faith
by the vote of the shareholders; or (iii) the contract or transaction is fair
and reasonable to the Corporation as of the time it is authorized, approved or
ratified, by the Board of Directors, a committee thereof or the stockholders.
Common or interested directors may be counted in determining the presence of a
quorum at a meeting of the Board of Directors or a committee thereof which
authorizes, approves, or ratifies such contract or transaction.


                                  ARTICLE XIII
                           INITIAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS

         The initial board of directors of the Corporation shall consist of five
members. The names of the initial directors are:

         NAME

         Thomas J. Wiens

         Sid Anderson

         Gerald Raskin

         Scott B. Campbell

         Brendan Reidy


                                   ARTICLE XIV
                                  INCORPORATOR

         The name and address of the incorporator is David A. Groom, 1390 S.
Potomac, Suite 136, Aurora, Colorado 80012.


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                                   ARTICLE XV
                                   RESERVATION

         The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal
any provision contained in these Articles of Incorporation, in the manner now or
thereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon shareholders
herein are granted subject to this reservation.

                                   ARTICLE XVI
                             EFFECTIVE DATE AND TIME

         These Articles of Incorporation shall become effective upon filing.


         On behalf of IntelliReady, Inc., the undersigned, by his signature
below, does hereby confirm, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing
Articles of Incorporation of IntelliReady, Inc. constitute the act and deed of
IntelliReady, Inc. and the facts stated herein are true.

         Scott B. Campbell hereby consents to the appointment as the initial
registered agent for the Corporation.

                                                 Registered Agent:


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                                                 Scott B. Campbell


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the above-named incorporator has signed these Articles of
Incorporation this ______ day of October, 2000.


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                                                 David A. Groom, Incorporator





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