diff --git a/app/models/ci/artifact.rb b/app/models/ci/artifact.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c66c560037e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/models/ci/artifact.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+module Ci
+  class Artifact < ActiveRecord::Base
+    belongs_to :build, class_name: "Ci::Build"
+    belongs_to :project, class_name: "Ci::Build"
+
+    enum type {
+      archive: 0,
+      metadata: 1,
+      trace: 2
+    }
+  end
+end
diff --git a/db/migrate/20170918072948_create_artifacts.rb b/db/migrate/20170918072948_create_artifacts.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0b3241070ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migrate/20170918072948_create_artifacts.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+class CreateArtifacts < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def change
+    create_table :artifacts do |t|
+
+      t.timestamps null: false
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/spec/models/ci/artifact_spec.rb b/spec/models/ci/artifact_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..438964fd787
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/models/ci/artifact_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+require 'rails_helper'
+
+RSpec.describe Artifact, type: :model do
+  pending "add some examples to (or delete) #{__FILE__}"
+end