diff --git a/app/models/build_failure.rb b/app/models/build_failure.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a1fb9d3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/models/build_failure.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+class BuildFailure < ActiveRecord::Base
+  belongs_to :repo
+  belongs_to :branch
+
+  def notify
+
+  end
+
+  def still_broken?
+  end
+end
diff --git a/db/migrate/20200109223351_create_build_failures.rb b/db/migrate/20200109223351_create_build_failures.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7a0850a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migrate/20200109223351_create_build_failures.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+class CreateBuildFailures < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def change
+    create_table :build_failures do |t|
+      t.integer :repo_id
+      t.integer :branch_id
+      t.integer :travis_build_id
+
+      t.datetime :last_notified_at
+      t.timestamps
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/db/schema.rb b/db/schema.rb
index 6120ecb7..63875090 100644
--- a/db/schema.rb
+++ b/db/schema.rb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended that you check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20171006050814) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20200109223351) do
 
   # These are extensions that must be enabled in order to support this database
   enable_extension "plpgsql"
@@ -48,6 +48,15 @@
     t.integer  "linter_offense_count"
   end
 
+  create_table "build_failures", force: :cascade do |t|
+    t.integer  "repo_id"
+    t.integer  "branch_id"
+    t.integer  "travis_build_id"
+    t.datetime "last_notified_at"
+    t.datetime "created_at"
+    t.datetime "updated_at"
+  end
+
   create_table "repos", force: :cascade do |t|
     t.string   "name",       limit: 255
     t.datetime "created_at"