diff --git a/app/api/api_routes.rb b/app/api/api_routes.rb
index e07fa6b..c027a7f 100644
--- a/app/api/api_routes.rb
+++ b/app/api/api_routes.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
 class APIRoutes < Grape::API
+  use ActionDispatch::Session::CookieStore, key: '_sbhacks_session'
   format :json
+
+  helpers APIHelpers
+
+  mount API::Auth
 end
diff --git a/app/models/user.rb b/app/models/user.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..24262df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/models/user.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+class User < ApplicationRecord
+  has_secure_password
+
+  validates :name, presence: true
+  validates :email, format: {
+    with: URI::MailTo::EMAIL_REGEXP,
+    message: 'is not a valid email address'
+  }
+  validates :password, length: { in: 8..72 }
+end
diff --git a/db/migrate/20200824035326_create_users.rb b/db/migrate/20200824035326_create_users.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5987b7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migrate/20200824035326_create_users.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+class CreateUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration[6.0]
+  def change
+    create_table :users do |t|
+      t.string :name, nil: false
+      t.string :email, index: { unique: true }, nil: false
+      t.string :password_digest, nil: false
+
+      t.timestamps
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/db/schema.rb b/db/schema.rb
index b10373b..147138a 100644
--- a/db/schema.rb
+++ b/db/schema.rb
@@ -10,9 +10,18 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended that you check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 0) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 2020_08_24_035326) do
 
   # These are extensions that must be enabled in order to support this database
   enable_extension "plpgsql"
 
+  create_table "users", force: :cascade do |t|
+    t.string "name"
+    t.string "email"
+    t.string "password_digest"
+    t.datetime "created_at", precision: 6, null: false
+    t.datetime "updated_at", precision: 6, null: false
+    t.index ["email"], name: "index_users_on_email", unique: true
+  end
+
 end
diff --git a/db/seeds.rb b/db/seeds.rb
index 1beea2a..4468e03 100644
--- a/db/seeds.rb
+++ b/db/seeds.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-# This file should contain all the record creation needed to seed the database with its default values.
-# The data can then be loaded with the rails db:seed command (or created alongside the database with db:setup).
-#
-# Examples:
-#
-#   movies = Movie.create([{ name: 'Star Wars' }, { name: 'Lord of the Rings' }])
-#   Character.create(name: 'Luke', movie: movies.first)
+User.create!(
+  name: 'SBHacks Admin',
+  email: 'development@sbhacks.com',
+  password: 'password'
+)
diff --git a/test/factories/user.rb b/test/factories/user.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7528474
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/factories/user.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+FactoryBot.define do
+  factory :user do
+    name { 'Akshay Heda' }
+    sequence :email do |n|
+      "akshay.#{n}@example.com"
+    end
+    password { 'ilovesbhacks' }
+  end
+end
diff --git a/test/models/user_test.rb b/test/models/user_test.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fd81ae9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/models/user_test.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+require 'test_helper'
+
+class UserTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
+  test 'factory is valid' do
+    assert_predicate build(:user), :valid?
+  end
+
+  test 'requires a name' do
+    user = build(:user)
+    user.name = nil
+    assert_not_predicate user, :valid?
+
+    user.name = ''
+    assert_not_predicate user, :valid?
+  end
+
+  test 'requires a valid email address' do
+    user = build(:user)
+    user.email = 'not an email'
+    assert_not_predicate user, :valid?
+  end
+
+  test 'requires a password' do
+    user = build(:user)
+    user.password = nil
+    assert_not_predicate user, :valid?
+
+    user.password = 'short'
+    assert_not_predicate user, :valid?
+  end
+end
diff --git a/test/test_helper.rb b/test/test_helper.rb
index 73a23b4..8bf52e4 100644
--- a/test/test_helper.rb
+++ b/test/test_helper.rb
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 module ActiveSupport
   class TestCase
+    include GrapeRouteHelpers::NamedRouteMatcher
+    include FactoryBot::Syntax::Methods
     # Run tests in parallel with specified workers
     parallelize(workers: :number_of_processors)