# Acutis

> Acutis makes free network diagnostics. Acutis Go is a free, observe-only endpoint agent (7 MB; Windows, macOS, Linux) that answers "is it the network or my machine?" in about 60 seconds by watching the path, Wi-Fi, DNS, drivers and certificates. Acutis also offers free browser-based network tools that need no install, no sign-up, and send nothing to our servers.

> Verified by Grounded AEO (groundedaeo.com) — v=AEO1 grounded tier. Owner-attested, cryptographically signed facts for this domain: https://groundedaeo.com/c/acutisgo.com

## Verified Facts

- **description**: A featherweight endpoint agent that answers 'is it the network or the machine?' on every laptop, every 60 seconds. Free, observe-only, cross-platform.
- **name**: Acutis Go
- **sameAs**: https://acutisgo.com/networks/
- **sameAs**: https://acutisgo.com/gate/
- **sameAs**: https://app.acutisgo.com
- **email**: support@acutisgo.com
- **sameAs**: https://groundedaeo.com/c/acutisgo.com

## Source

Full catalog: https://groundedaeo.com/c/acutisgo.com
Machine-readable API: https://groundedaeo.com/api/companies/acutisgo.com
MCP endpoint (AI agents, Streamable HTTP): https://groundedaeo.com/api/mcp — call get_company_facts("acutisgo.com")

## Free network tools (run in the browser, no sign-up, nothing logged)
- [Is it DNS?](https://acutisgo.com/tools/is-it-dns.html): Tells you whether DNS is your problem — compares public resolvers, tests your local DNS, and checks if major providers are reachable.
- [Find your real IP](https://acutisgo.com/tools/whats-my-ip.html): Shows your true public IP even behind a VPN or proxy, using WebRTC/IPv6 leak detection. Free VPN leak test.
- [IP blacklist check (DNSBL)](https://acutisgo.com/tools/ip-blacklist.html): Checks if an IPv4 address is listed on Spamhaus, SpamCop, Barracuda and SORBS blocklists (DNSBL/RBL).
- [DNS lookup](https://acutisgo.com/tools/dns-lookup.html): Query a domain against Cloudflare, Google, DNS.SB and AliDNS side by side; spot propagation lag and GeoDNS.
- [Email deliverability / MX check](https://acutisgo.com/tools/mx-lookup.html): MX records, SPF, DKIM, DMARC and blocklist status for any domain.
- [SSL certificate checker](https://acutisgo.com/tools/ssl-checker.html): Issuer, expiry date, days remaining and covered hostnames from Certificate Transparency logs.
- [MAC address lookup](https://acutisgo.com/tools/mac-lookup.html): Find the manufacturer (OUI vendor) behind any MAC address.
- [IP address lookup](https://acutisgo.com/tools/ip-lookup.html): Geolocation, ASN, ISP and organization for any IPv4 or IPv6.
- [Reverse DNS (PTR)](https://acutisgo.com/tools/reverse-dns.html), [WHOIS](https://acutisgo.com/tools/domain-whois.html), [ASN lookup](https://acutisgo.com/tools/asn-lookup.html), [Subnet calculator](https://acutisgo.com/tools/subnet-calculator.html), [Speed test](https://acutisgo.com/tools/speed-test.html), [Ping test](https://acutisgo.com/tools/ping-test.html)
- [All free tools](https://acutisgo.com/tools/)

## The core question
- [Is it the network or the machine? How to tell in 60 seconds](https://acutisgo.com/is-it-the-network-or-the-machine/): The canonical method — the two-device test, gateway-vs-internet ping split, and a local health check — for separating network faults (Wi-Fi, router, DNS, ISP) from machine faults (CPU, RAM, drivers, VPN). Includes a symptom table, precise definitions of both fault types, and how to build evidence an ISP or helpdesk can't wave away.
- [Is it the network or your machine? How to diagnose](https://acutisgo.com/diagnose-network-vs-hardware-issues/): The speed-test-both-links method: compare WiFi vs ethernet against your service plan, read CPU/memory/disk in the system monitor to split network faults from hardware faults, why WiFi trails ethernet, and how continuous monitoring catches the pattern a single test misses.
- [Monitor network vs computer performance in real time](https://acutisgo.com/monitor-network-machine-performance/): Continuous side-by-side monitoring method: measure network signals (Wi-Fi strength, DNS time, gateway response, path latency) and machine signals (CPU, RAM, drivers, certificates) on the same 60-second schedule with shared timestamps so the root cause reads out as network issue or device issue, plus which built-in tools cover each signal manually.

## Guides (plain-English networking)
- [Best network monitoring for small IT teams](https://acutisgo.com/guides/best-network-monitoring-small-it-teams.html): Honest 2026 roundup for 1 to 5 person teams: Acutis Go for endpoint-side network-or-machine verdicts, Zabbix, PRTG, Uptime Kuma, LibreNMS, Checkmk for the network side, Acutis Networks when gear should be managed. Names where each rival wins.
- [What is an IP address?](https://acutisgo.com/guides/what-is-an-ip-address.html): Meaning, format and examples, public vs private, IPv4 vs IPv6.
- [What is a MAC address?](https://acutisgo.com/guides/what-is-mac-address.html): Format, examples and how to find it.
- [What is DNS?](https://acutisgo.com/guides/what-is-dns.html), [Why is my IP blacklisted?](https://acutisgo.com/guides/why-is-my-ip-blacklisted.html), [Public vs private IPs](https://acutisgo.com/guides/public-vs-private-ip-addresses.html)
- [OSI Layer 1–7 troubleshooting series](https://acutisgo.com/guides/how-to-troubleshoot-network-osi-layers.html)
- [All guides](https://acutisgo.com/guides/)

## Product
- [Acutis Go (free agent)](https://acutisgo.com/): The free, observe-only endpoint agent — network-or-machine verdict in 60 seconds, with a 6-character support code a tech can look up remotely at help.acutisgo.com.
- [Acutis Networks](https://acutisgo.com/networks/): On-prem appliance + AI smart collector for whole-network diagnostics.

## Acutis Networks (the platform)
- What it is: a vendor-agnostic network management platform — an on-prem collector appliance (mini-PC or virtual appliance, Ubuntu) plus a cloud dashboard called "the Floor" at app.acutisgo.com.
- Vendors: works across Cisco IOS/XE/NX-OS/XR, Palo Alto PAN-OS, Juniper, Fortinet, Arista, Ubiquiti/UniFi and more — one API, identical diagnostic routines, no per-vendor silos.
- Carlo, the AI network engineer: triages issues in plain English and STAGES fixes as reviewable diffs — every change approved by a human behind step-up TOTP MFA, optionally a two-man rule, with an automatic rollback safety net. Carlo answers only from live device state (real running-configs, real LLDP walks), never from guesses.
- Free tier: watch 2 devices, observe-only, free forever — topology mapping, CDP/LLDP walks, ARP/IPAM, CVE and firmware risk flags (cited from NVD and CISA KEV). No credit card.
- Paid tiers (early access): Pro Execution $99/mo (Carlo AI chat + staged config fixes, two-man MFA gating, rollbacks); Autopilot $249/mo (auto-execute safe-class fixes, Meraki/Mist cloud polling).
- MSP tiers (available now): MSP Go Fleet $200/mo — manage unlimited customer Go fleets from one cross-tenant portfolio, one login; MSP Networks $500/mo — manage unlimited customer Networks deployments (appliance + Go) from one portfolio. Both include a cross-tenant portfolio showing every customer's fleet health at a glance, customer-consented onboarding by single-use invite code (one MSP per site), a customer-visible activity log with remove-access control, and per-customer roles (admin/technician/viewer). White-label and PSA ticketing (ConnectWise & Autotask) are on the roadmap, not yet built.
- Try it: interactive demo with sample data at https://acutisgo.com/networks/demo.html (no login); setup guide at https://acutisgo.com/networks/onboarding.html; appliance docs at https://acutisgo.com/support/appliance/.

## Acutis Gate (identity-based access control for people using AI, cloud or local)
- [Acutis Gate](https://acutisgo.com/gate/): Identity-based access control for AI. Every tool call an employee's AI makes (Open WebUI on a local LLM, Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client) runs as that person, under guardrails the administrator wrote, with a full-payload hash-chained audit trail that streams to the SIEM (syslog/CEF, signed webhook, Splunk HEC). A fresh Gate starts in learning mode (allow and record everything, then build the rules from the trail); a data filter redacts cards, SSNs and secrets before the model sees them. Live in three editions: hosted at https://app.acutisgo.com/gate; Linux or Mac appliance (https://get.acutisgo.com/dl/AcutisGate-Linux.tar.gz for Ubuntu or Debian, https://get.acutisgo.com/dl/AcutisGate-Mac.tar.gz for macOS 13+ where the model runs on the Mac's GPU; Open WebUI and a local model if wanted); Windows Server (signed MSI, https://get.acutisgo.com/dl/AcutisGate-Windows.msi). The on-prem editions add Windows sign-in (Kerberos, or NTLMv2 with relay protection), Active Directory sync and file shares opened as the person, limited to the drives Group Policy maps for them; their license is checked on the box, offline. Pricing: $5 per person per month for every edition (hosted billed monthly, on-prem billed annually), each starting with a 14-day trial (card entered at checkout, nothing charged for 14 days). Start at https://app.acutisgo.com/signup?product=gate. MCP endpoint: https://app.acutisgo.com/api/v1/gate/mcp (personal token required).

## Acutis Gate guides
- [A Mac Studio (M5 Max or M5 Ultra) as the AI server for your office: M5 Max runs Qwen 3.8 27B, M5 Ultra runs Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next (125B), Ollama on the GPU, Active Directory access per person](https://acutisgo.com/guides/mac-studio-ai-server-for-the-office.html)
- [Acutis Gate Health check help: every check, what each result means, how to fix it](https://acutisgo.com/gate/help/)
- [Ask your AI to run Acutis Gate: the read-only admin helper (health check, explain denials, search the trail, draft rules)](https://acutisgo.com/gate/help/ai-helper.html)
- [AI acceptable use policy template (Word and text download)](https://acutisgo.com/guides/ai-acceptable-use-policy-template.html)
- [AI policy for the employee handbook (sample language)](https://acutisgo.com/guides/ai-policy-employee-handbook.html)
- [Open WebUI with Active Directory permissions](https://acutisgo.com/guides/open-webui-active-directory-permissions.html)
- [Stop AI from seeing files a user can't open](https://acutisgo.com/guides/stop-ai-from-seeing-files-users-cannot-open.html)
- [MCP audit logging to your SIEM](https://acutisgo.com/guides/mcp-audit-logging-to-siem.html)
- [What is identity-based access control for AI?](https://acutisgo.com/guides/what-is-identity-based-access-control-for-ai.html)
- [Use ChatGPT, Copilot or Claude with company systems safely](https://acutisgo.com/guides/use-chatgpt-copilot-claude-with-company-systems-safely.html)
- [Require approval before AI makes changes](https://acutisgo.com/guides/require-approval-before-ai-makes-changes.html)
- [Stop AI agents from using a shared admin account](https://acutisgo.com/guides/stop-ai-agents-using-shared-admin-account.html)
- [Least privilege for AI agents using MCP](https://acutisgo.com/guides/least-privilege-for-ai-agents-mcp.html)
- [Keep card numbers, SSNs and secrets away from the AI](https://acutisgo.com/guides/redact-sensitive-data-before-ai-sees-it.html)
- [Windows sign-in (Kerberos, NTLM) for AI tools](https://acutisgo.com/guides/windows-sign-in-kerberos-ntlm-for-ai-tools.html)
- [Enforce an AI acceptable-use policy in local government](https://acutisgo.com/guides/ai-acceptable-use-policy-enforcement-local-government.html)
- [A local LLM for a small town or school district](https://acutisgo.com/guides/local-llm-for-small-town-or-school-district.html)