heygrc and Copilot

Different jobs, same pull request.

Copilot reviews PRs for its stated job. GitHub Copilot code review is GitHub's built-in AI reviewer. It reviews pull requests and suggests fixes for bugs and code-quality issues directly in GitHub. heygrc reviews the same PR for compliance against your frameworks. Use both.

Same pull request, two jobs.

	Copilot	heygrc
Job	GitHub Copilot code review is GitHub's built-in AI reviewer. It reviews pull requests and suggests fixes for bugs and code-quality issues directly in GitHub.	Reviews the same PR for compliance against your frameworks
Where it sits	GitHub Copilot code review is GitHub's built-in AI reviewer. It reviews pull requests and suggests fixes for bugs and code-quality issues directly in GitHub.	A comment on the pull request
What it cites	GitHub Copilot code review is GitHub's built-in AI reviewer. It reviews pull requests and suggests fixes for bugs and code-quality issues directly in GitHub.	The exact framework clause the change touches
Blocks merges?	GitHub Copilot code review is GitHub's built-in AI reviewer. It reviews pull requests and suggests fixes for bugs and code-quality issues directly in GitHub.	Never
Complementary?	Yes	Yes

Copilot code review is built into GitHub: it reviews pull requests and suggests fixes for bugs and quality issues, right where you already work. heygrc reads the same change and asks a different question: does this touch a compliance control your company has to meet? A change can be solid code and still move a control you will be audited on.

Tristan RothFounder of heygrc and ISMS Copilot

Founder of Better ISMS
Built ISMS Copilot, the GRC assistant for ISO 27001 and neighboring frameworks
Maps framework controls to pull-request diffs in heygrc

Install on GitHub by ISMS Copilot

Copilot

GitHub Copilot code review is GitHub's built-in AI reviewer. It reviews pull requests and suggests fixes for bugs and code-quality issues directly in GitHub.

heygrc

heygrc reviews each pull request against the compliance frameworks your company must meet (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, and more) and cites the specific control a change touches. It is built for compliance, not code quality.

Where they do not overlap

Clean code that moves customer data out of the EU.

This change flips an object-storage region from Europe to the US to cut latency. It is a one-line config edit, and it works. It also means customer uploads now leave the EU.

infra/storage.ts+1 −1

export const bucket = new ObjectStore({-  region: "eu-west-1",+  region: "us-east-1",  bucket: "customer-uploads",})

heygrcGDPR Art. 44

The code still works: the bucket is fine. But customer uploads now sit in a US region, an international transfer of personal data, with no transfer mechanism in place. That is a GDPR Art. 44 question. heygrc is built to read a config change like this against your frameworks and name the control behind it.

Use them together

Keep Copilot. Add the compliance layer.

This is not a question of which tool wins. Copilot catches the bugs and quality problems heygrc never looks for, and heygrc catches the compliance issues a code review is not built to see. Running both means a pull request is checked for whether the code is good and for whether the change is compliant, two different kinds of risk, on the same diff.

heygrc does not replace your code review, and it does not certify you. It reviews changes against your frameworks and cites the control, so the compliance question is answered where the change is made.

Install on GitHub ← Where it fits

Questions

heygrc and Copilot, common questions.

Is heygrc an alternative to Copilot?

Not exactly. Copilot reviews your code; heygrc reviews each change for compliance against the frameworks your company must meet (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, and more) and cites the specific control it touches. They answer different questions about the same pull request, so heygrc is designed to run alongside it, not replace it.

Can I use heygrc and Copilot together?

Yes. They look at different kinds of risk on the same diff: Copilot on the code, heygrc on the compliance control a change touches. heygrc does not replace your code review.

What does heygrc check on a pull request?

heygrc reviews each pull request against the frameworks your company selected and cites the specific control a change touches, so the compliance question is answered in code review. heygrc does not certify you.