About Bov Academy of Programming

Richard Bovell founded Bov Academy of Programming, an online coding academy, in 2015 to realize three highly ambitious goals:

1. Creating Elite Engineers via “Simultaneity”: The first goal was to train students to become elite software engineers by having them simultaneously create prodigious real-world projects. These projects were aimed at solving real technical, economic, and social challenges, and were designed to generate lasting wealth for the students who developed them through an innovative process Bovell termed Simultaneity. Each project was innovative and comprehensive in its design, technical implementation, and goals.
2. The “Enlightenment” Project (The Blueprint): The second goal was to create The Enlightened Web, the most accurate search engine, and Eli, an AI assistant integrated with the search engine and capable of executing any human cognitive task. Codenamed Enlightenment, the Eli/Enlightened Web project was designed to usher in a period of transformative benefits for our societies—toward a more enlightened, advanced, and beautiful humanity—effectively democratizing prosperity. For more on the theft of this specific technology, see the homepage, About Richard Bovell, and also see Bovell’s lawsuit filed in November 2025 against Sam Altman, Microsoft, and OpenAI.
3. Humanitarian Innovation: The final goal was to bring to reality dozens of innovative technologies and programs that Bovell devised to help advance humanity technologically, socially, economically, and intellectually. These were the real-world projects students built as part of their practical studies. After three years in operation, Bov Academy did not secure the necessary investment to scale and was forced to pause operations. However, Bovell kept the platform open for students to continue their education for as long as they needed; it eventually closed to all students in 2020. See this link: http://bovacademy.com

After three years in operation, Bov Academy failed to secure investment and was forced to close. Yet, it remained open for students to continue their education for as long as they needed; it eventually closed to all students in 2020 after more than 99% of the remaining students stopped using the platform. See this link: http://bovacademy.com

Message from Richard Bovell to All Former Bov Academy Students

As many of you know, I passionately believe in providing free education at every level. I consider free education a necessary and advantageous investment that every country ought to undertake for its citizens and residents. As such, I never wanted students to pay tuition to attend Bov Academy, a desire I shared with many of you when the academy was in operation. To help fulfill my vision for free education, I provided fully paid scholarships to nearly 15% of the students, even though the academy was never funded to cover these tuitions.

I created Bov Academy as a for-profit institution only because I could not secure investment to get the school started and was forced to bootstrap it myself, which made tuition necessary. Nevertheless, I have regretted charging students to attend the academy ever since its inception, and even more so since its closure.

It is my sincere hope and intention to refund every student their tuition in full as soon as I have the financial means to do so. I would be most happy and relieved to finally fulfill this long-held desire and make your education at Bov Academy the free gift it was always intended to be.